Top 823 Quotes & Sayings by Swiss Authors - Page 7

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.

I feel 'SmackDown' has the absolute best tag teams in the world: we have us; we have The New Day. We have the Usos. We have The Club. We have Sanity. We have the Hardys. We have Rusev and Nakamura.

Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

The serve, I think, is the most difficult, you know, in terms of coordination, because you got the two arms going, and you got to toss it up at the right time so.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

I lived and grew up in the black and white period of photojournalism.

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

The best path through life is the highway.

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.

What the hell is happening to the world when those who were at the origin of... international humanitarian law start questioning in public debates whether it has any relevance or should be respected?

Play is the work of childhood.

I love the region around Lake Geneva. The landscape is beautiful, very peaceful, and such a nice place to relax and spend time outdoors. It's always a pleasure to come back home.

If you are working with high quality products, you can elevate the flavors more by cooking it at a low temperature than you can by searing it.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Jupiter is so big and its gravitational pull so strong that man would find it difficult to move about on the surface. The answer is to whittle it down to proper size with terrajets and nuclear power, using the debris to increase the size of Jupiter's moons so they, too, can be colonized.

The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

When you look at billionaires, many of them share one characteristic: They were not born billionaires.

I was always pretty good at designing things.

How can I pay for dental care, doctors, the expenses of my homes or traveling. I have nothing to pay with.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Winning the Absa Cape Epic already was a wonderful surprise. The World Cup was, for sure, my main goal, but winning all of them was nothing I had planned on.

I have no words for my reality.

For me, motivation is easy. I enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm lucky to play tennis. I enjoy the suffering. It's something quite natural for me to go on the court and suffer, and to go in the gym and to suffer, and to know the only way to get better is to work out - that's what I like.

Each script has its own calligraphic and cultural history. It is more a question of matching different calligraphic styles to one another, without the features of one script dominating another.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

One of my key mental fitness tips is to make sure you are aware of your target and develop a strategy - a routine that you can depend on while in the race. This is a crucial part of mental fitness and preparation.

The world is large, very large. My head is small, quite small. There is no way I can put the world in my head. Nevertheless, I have been trying to elaborate some kind of representation.

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

You know, I think plastic surgery is the way you keep your skin.

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

Today, to find a challenge is really hard. In the Alps, everything is done. The new lines, almost all of them are finished. So to find a new challenge, it's all beginning to go to speed.