Top 823 Quotes & Sayings by Swiss Authors - Page 9

I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.

Of course I climbed Everest without oxygen, but it's not the end of the story for me. The summit itself is not what counts. It's how'd you get there, what'd you climb, and there are really great opportunities to climb on this mountain. It's a beautiful place.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

The Rolling Stones seemed very loose and wild, but when you read about them, you realize that everything they did is very deliberate.

I'm very proud with how my story has gone. I've played for some very big teams, and it is not normal how I got there. It is a dream for every player to have this kind of career, so I am very proud of this.

The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple techniques. You start with great bread, a well-cured ham and a sharp local cheese, and the rest is easy. A little butter in a pan and a little patience - in the end you'll have a sandwich that is at once comforting and delicious.

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV.

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

One says also, it is one of the most faithful men in Hollywood, and makes again more interesting it equal.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.

We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have reached this remarkable point.

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

Liverpool is one of the best teams in the world - everybody can see that - and now we have to do it on the pitch.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

When you reach 50 you like to have a certain freedom because it's really the time you can show you achieved something.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

The lynx has perfect eyes.

I really do not like violence.

You've got to listen to your guests.

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'

Collecting is my passion.

If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

I guess I'm just a tough cookie.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Truth is always a delusion.

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.

I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.

I'm always trying to improve, always trying to be at my top, trying to push the limit.

Every race is like training and preparation.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

The public doesn't want new music.