Top 823 Quotes & Sayings by Swiss Authors - Page 12

If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.

If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph.

When we are young there's a certain freshness we lose with the years.

You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.

Every World Cup I want to try and win, and my 30th World Cup win was a big goal. And it's a good feeling to go into the world championships with a good result.

At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.

We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.

In Camden, it's just the atmosphere that gets me. It's simple. It's nice. It's real. And it's the people, too. I like to interact with them because they are normal and I am normal. People probably don't expect an Arsenal player to come to Camden Lock and, basically, be a normal guy.

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

I have a great love for cuisine, so I'm always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India.

God has always been hard on the poor.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at its roots rather than merely addressing the symptoms.

The trouble with vitreous water is that vitrification should be impossible.

I had hoped that he has mouth smell or something other repelling, but nothing! It was even charming.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

I really like Pietermaritzburg: it is really a course for me - really technical.

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Here at Stoke, I cannot exert too much influence, simply because there is a lack of quality around me.

To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

Every actor wants to win an Oscar.

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

I love street races; there's something about racing in the middle of a city.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

I'll never forget Spencer Tracy. He only worked from nine to one - then from three to five again.

Be who you are and be that well.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful.

What I love about Thanksgiving is that it's purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It's really for everybody, and it doesn't matter where you're from.

In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

My parents weren't very sporty, and football wasn't part of my everyday life. I was never a massive football fan either, but, like everyone else, I used to watch matches on TV.

I am a very simple man. I love normality, and I love normal people. I love to eat normal food. It's how I grew up.

For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don't do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you.

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'

Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

A coherent typeface is an essential part of a coherent branding strategy.

In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate.

Art is all in the details.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Every player wants to play. That's pretty normal. Every player is unhappy when he's on the bench. That's pretty normal, too. But it's football: only 11 players can start, and the coach has his game plan for each game.

I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.

I'm going to give my best and not worry about transfer fees or anything like that.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.