Switzerland famous quotes

I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.
-- Alber Elbaz

#Thinking #Switzerland #Want

Well, see, there's this cave in Switzerland I really need to find.' She slipped on her sunglasses; was already in the middle of the street when she turned and looked back at Hale and Gabrielle. 'You coming?
-- Ally Carter

#Switzerland #Sunglasses #Needs

Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.
-- Andy Rooney

#Space #Switzerland #Should

I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.
-- Brad Gilbert

#Player #Switzerland #Would Be

Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before.
-- Chaim Weizmann

#Taken #Years #Switzerland

Internationally, I love going to Switzerland. I went there many times for shooting and loved the Alps, the tranquility, cleanliness, the greenery and the warmth of the people there.
-- Chiranjeevi

#People #Switzerland #Shooting

My main place is in Switzerland, but I live on a plane, really.
-- Christopher Lambert

#Switzerland #Planes

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.
-- Claude Nicollier

#Dad #Years #Switzerland

When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'
-- Dhani Jones

#Hair #People #Switzerland

Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
-- Fatos Nano

#Europe #Switzerland #Germany

The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
-- Fritz Kreisler

#War #Wife #Switzerland

My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Switzerland #Citizens

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.
-- Geraldine Chaplin

#Crazy #Thinking #Switzerland

And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.
-- Herman Gorter

#Country #Two #Switzerland

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.
-- Hugh Laurie

#Relax #Dutch #Switzerland

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.
-- J. M. Coetzee

#Passing Away #Switzerland #Novelists

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.
-- James Boswell

#Home #Switzerland #Germany

Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it.
-- Jay Leno

#Country #Switzerland #Today

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.
-- Jean-Claude Duvalier

#Years #Switzerland #Frozen

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.
-- John Howe

#Switzerland #Film #Animated

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.
-- Jose Manuel Barroso

#Country #Switzerland #Norway

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.
-- Karl Marlantes

#Mad #Switzerland #Able

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.
-- Linda Cardellini

#Switzerland #Amsterdam

I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.
-- Martina Hingis

#Years #Switzerland #Speak

It's tough to find a place not to like in Switzerland.
-- Michele Bachmann

#Switzerland #Tough

When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.
-- Nikita Khrushchev

#World #Switzerland #Socialist

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
-- Norman Granz

#Europe #Switzerland #Moved

I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
-- Parminder Nagra

#America #Madrid #Switzerland

Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.
-- Simon Hoggart

#Airports #Switzerland #Hoarding

I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.
-- Stephenie Meyer

#Mythical Creatures #Switzerland #Disputes

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
-- Sydney Smith

#Scotland #Switzerland #Looks

Everybody says Steve McManaman played on the left for me in Euro 96 but he never played on the left. The one time he did play on the left was against Switzerland.
-- Terry Venables

#Play #Switzerland #Euro

No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.
-- Trevanian

#Likes #Switzerland #Cleanliness

I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
-- Ursula Andress

#Switzerland #Individualism #My Family

A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent, 1000 percent or more of GDP, so that every economy starts to have financial systems that resemble recent cases like Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, or Cyprus. That might be a very fragile world to live in.
-- Alan M. Taylor

#Iceland #Gdp #Switzerland

I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.
-- Baran Odar

#Thinking #Switzerland #Germany

You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.
-- Cristina Garcia

#Bird #Switzerland #Locks

Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we're a small country with no natural resources. Switzerland is the world capital of dealing in stolen goods.
-- Jean Ziegler

#Country #Switzerland #Income

Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.
-- Jean Ziegler

#Country #Blood #Switzerland