Top 823 Quotes & Sayings by Swiss Authors - Page 8

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

I think around the world is more fun, no? It's more fun to be around the world.

The architect works in the territory of memory.

I have learned one thing in my life: If I put too much pressure on myself, then everything goes wrong.

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

Not all Sherpas are bad. There are a few who are crazy, but the rest are good people.

I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

In some way I became an angel, and who except me has experienced that in his lifetime?

You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.

The scientists do not get enough help, enough encouragement, to change their field from time to time because the pressure is too high or is to perform something. And once you start in a new field, you are a nobody to start with, you see.

Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.

We can't always agree on everything.

Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man.

I do believe that organizations can certainly improve lives by specifying better fonts, which of course has an effect on how you read your e-mail.

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.

My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

Power is paradoxical.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

Study nature, not books.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.

We see chemistry, how the atoms are arranged in the molecules, how the disease changes the arrangement. Perhaps we will find which drug disentangles the aggregates that make a brain senile. Many of us are interested in such things.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

There is no art without Eros.

I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.

Conflicts are not temporary interruptions: they are structural, socio-economic catastrophes, and funding must be allocated accordingly.

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

I live the Swiss mentality but the Kosovo mentality too, because when I go home, I speak Albanian.

Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.

Every track has its challenges, but Suzuka is a continuous test of a driver's skills, and I think that's what makes it so beautiful to drive.

Magic is, in its core, introverted and closed; it's the most closed community ever, and I want to change all that and make it more open. If we want things to change, we have to be more open-minded.

I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.

What if the coach of Kosovo wants me as the captain? Of course, I am thinking about it then.

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

I worked hard to complete my medal collection.

A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

I know I won't be the first one to say this, but Suzuka is definitely my favourite circuit of the year.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

If I have to tell you what was and is my mission, I think UBS can be the Apple or IBM of the banking industry: companies that went from being admired to severe difficulties and to being back stronger than before.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.