Top 823 Quotes & Sayings by Swiss Authors - Page 10

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

I don't know what evil itself is.

I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

It's in my head that I am a leader, and captaining Monchengladbach was very good for me.

I admire my father greatly.

I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.

I have a good relationship with the Albanian fans. But when you are called a traitor - that is such a harsh word. Most of the Albanian fans respect me. But 'traitor' is unacceptable considering the background of my family.

The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war.

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.

When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.

The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

End of the sixties, Keith Blazey interested me to work on GdAlO3, an antiferromagnet on which he had done optic experiments. This started a fruitful cooperation on magnetic phase diagrams, which eventually brought me into the field of critical phenomena.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.

I have pet snakes.

Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

I am very good at decoration. I am maybe extremely good at decoration.

The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities.

I don't cheat.

I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least.

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.

I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

Artificial light is used because you can control it better. Technically, it is more homogeneous, more delicate, and less damaging to artwork. But I think it's interesting when the visitor can see variations in the light, when it is not only technical or suitable.