Top 823 Quotes & Sayings by Swiss Authors - Page 2

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.

Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.

Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

Even when they are saturated in the sense of the older theory of valence, the elementary atoms still possess sufficient chemical affinity to bind other seemingly also saturated atoms and groups of atoms, under generation of clearly defined atomic bonds.

They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.

Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

We see parts of each other, and we put them together. But if I want to see you in totality, you need to move away; we need space between us. Across the street, I can see all of you at once, but then I also see this huge vista of space surrounding you, coming in and compressing you.

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

I think my agents take care of my future.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

One Catwoman in the world! It's amazing because you have to have a sense of humour, it's a must.

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.

Impact investment is an important business driver, and more importantly, it is a business driver because clients want it.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

My first climb was on lead; there were pitons, no bolts.

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.

Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didn't even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'

No one in Switzerland knows me as the Swiss Machine, and that's good, because I don't like it.

No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

I still believe in old school values, I still believe in hard work, I still believe in wrestling, and people have showed that's what they want to see.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

It would be great if you could cool the water and immobilise the molecules, though keeping the structure, because when it's frozen, when it's immobilised, you can have it in the electron microscope and the water will not evaporate because in the electron microscope, it must be under vacuum, and water at normal temperature evaporates.

I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes.

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.

If I had to pick favourite parts of Interlagos, I would say the first and last corners. The first corner is really technical and punishes you if you get it wrong, while the last corner is so fast and really puts quite a strain on your body. As a driver, I really enjoy these corners.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

You know, I don't only play for the record books.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects of clearing a plate, carving tableside, or pouring wine, and a lifetime to master the emotional elements of service.

As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous, is when clubs accept fools.

I never expected to make a living from climbing, but it got to the point where I either had to get a job or start trying to make some real money from it. I didn't want to be 45 and a dirtbag.

I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The goal of physiological research is functional nature.

The last time I was in Abu Dhabi, I had a blast. I went jet-skiing in the Arabian Gulf, I went to Ferrari World, and went to Sheikh Zayed Mosque. I just enjoyed the city and the life. It was just amazing, and I am really looking forward to coming back.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.