Swiss Quotations

The most appealing thing to me about food is combining and layering flavors, tastes, and textures. So the perfect sandwich has to be toasted. It has to have Emmenthal Swiss cheese and a combination of sweet and savory - some cranberry or fig thing happening - with different kinds of meats like Black Forest ham and roast beef.

I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.

From 1949 to 1953, I studied towards the diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich. It is in the last year of this study that I made my first contacts with fundamental research, when working on the isolation and characterization of a new isomer of Cl34 with a half-life of 1.5 seconds.

For many years, when still a Yugoslav citizen, I was already a Swiss patriot, and in 1959, I obtained Swiss citizenship. However, I consider myself a world citizen, and I am very grateful to my adopted country that it allows me to be one.

One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?

According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own.

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.

The world of 'Terra Nova' as we joined it... there is a certain amount of prosperity there, and in fact I would say that I was a bit surprised when I first got there to see how it had all developed and how sophisticated the colony was - I had envisioned it being a bit more Swiss Family Robinson, but that wasn't my call.

People are starting to know more about it, but I was blown away by Almaty, Kazakhstan. It's like a future Swiss Alps. It has the potential to be an extraordinary ski resort. It is a city with beautiful mountain scapes.

Actors are like Swiss Army knives - we're ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that's the only thing they can imagine.

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

We stand by the guidance of February when we forecast 1.1 to 1.2 billion Swiss francs for pandemic use. That is the best estimate we can give on the government orders we have.

We respect the Swiss justice system, but we would have greatly preferred that he be extradited here.

There are four movies that got me into wanting to make movies: Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Swiss Family Robinson, and Jason and the Argonauts. Those are the movies that took me to different places when I was a kid. I fell in love with movies by watching those movies.

We have regressed. You can't really argue with that. Our team defense is Swiss cheese right now. Any time you are giving up the points we've given up over the last seven games, you can't say anything but negative things about our defense. I can't think of anything positive.

This program of actions is a last resort forced upon us by the continuing failure of the Swiss government to participate in the negotiations or even support an agreement, and by the inability of the Swiss banks to bridge the small gap between them and the class-action plaintiffs,

Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!

We won't face the same pressure against the Swiss that we'll face against a Finland or a Canada. But I expect a battle. It is the Olympics. Hopefully, every country brings their best game.

The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in a giant Barclays Bank

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

Last year was politically interesting for the Swiss abroad, with two votes on bilateral accords with EU, and this certainly played a role.

Last year the Swiss business leaders we asked placed the country 56th overall on a world scale and it actually dropped to 79th this year. There was a tangible higher sense of pessimism.

Since many of the favorites are from countries like Mexico and Kenya, we have those anthems and flags. What probably happened is the person in charge just couldn't find the Swiss anthem. Since we didn't have the Swiss flag or the national anthem, we canned them both.

One of the Swiss players swore at me and showed me the finger, and when he says he didn't do it, everyone believes him.

My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.

I don't know what Swiss musicians need to do to be heard beyond the borders of their own country. It was always clear to me that I belong everywhere, that music belongs everywhere. It simply never occurred to me that I had to limit myself to a country.

Hockey was not really on the map until now. And I think with a game like that you can show the world how Swiss hockey is.

We make them ourselves to the customer's liking with Swiss movement. They make great gifts.

I think it has a chance of being a major product. It just adds another tool to that Swiss Army knife we call wireless phones.

I think it's by far the biggest win in Swiss hockey ? since I've been playing. Even in history. It's kind of a miracle.

I think we can be really proud of ourselves. We accomplished a huge game for Swiss hockey. We played the way we want to play. Our box play was perfect. It was a huge effort from every guy.

It is an absolute disgrace that a Swiss citizen has got away with a virtual tap on the wrist for raping a South African boy, simply because the definition of rape does not include male- on-male rape.

Price (in the Swiss system) doesn't matter, because it's set by these negotiations.

Market expectations for both are very fluid. All of this is driving Japanese yields up and causing the market to switch from the yen into the Swiss franc as the funding currency for carry trades.

I was born in Canada, went to school in Colombia and Denmark, and have worked for American, French and Swiss companies. So not much Scottish blood. But the good news is that I'm not English either!

We have to have kids step up. When the lights come on -- and I love my kids -- they have to execute better. Our defense is like Swiss cheese right now, and that's really frustrating.

We could hear the Swiss yelling and stuff. We expected that.

We could have done better. We had a couple of chances which we should have converted. The Swiss are a good team.

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?

was made possible by the cooperation and help of Swiss authorities.

We were able to put some boats between us and the Italian in today's first race, which gave us a comfortable lead. We then pushed the Italian back at the start of the last race then followed the Swiss boat around the course.

This system is not a good one. It's like a Swiss cheese -- we all know this. I don't think any of us would congratulate ourselves or anyone else who is involved in airport security with the job we have done over the last 10 years.

We'll have to wait and see what we get. If it looks like Swiss cheese, we won't be happy.

This was good for Swiss hockey but at the same time, it's one game.

You have to please understand that in today's American terms, people worked hard. The Swiss worked hard. But it was a matter of survival.

This will start to show up on the radar screen in 2006. The more different pieces we add to these Swiss Army phones, the easier it is to get user acceptance for the next application. And especially around next Christmas, the convenience of shopping on a computer or a cell phone will beat the mall hands down.

The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month

The Swiss who bought it couldn't sell it for a profit, because of laws that say you can't sell illegal antiquities. Instead of selling the papyrus, they decided to market the contents.

The Swiss Tropical Institute will be responsible for selecting patients and carefully monitoring the trials,

The Swiss came to an agreement they would keep half the gold and the rest would go to the Allies,

The Swiss are much smarter than American pharmaceutical firms.

Tea-stained laces, Victorian accents, ruffles and textured fabrics like Swiss dot and crochet reinforce this sense of vintage femininity.

Sometimes there are bad surprises like Swiss Re. There's been some locking in of profits but company results remain good.

Our experience over seven or eight years has been that when customers start using virtualization, they have a preliminary notion of what virtualization is. But once they get in and start using it, they see it's like a Swiss Army knife, and they can use it in many different ways.

A very special day for Swiss ice hockey and a very special day for this group of individuals that believed this was possible and never stopped believing. Beginning with The Wall in net, Martin Gerber , unbelievable penalty killing, and a lot of courage from players who just a few years ago were asking for autographs from the players they faced today.

That's how the superficial clot works. They end up turning into Swiss cheese. They break up, but stay in the same spot. They cover over with tissue so they don't dislodge and move in there. It's a stable situation and he's off of the blood thinners. The doctors are very optimistic about it and we will see how it goes.

The universe is going to become a de facto Swiss Army Knife.

They should not underestimate the difficulties. We have to talk to the Swiss before we can announce a date.

The yen remains the preferred funding currency for carry trades. The Swiss franc was the alternative and now it's become less attractive.

There was no fear in their eyes. Every Swiss person I spoke to looked confident. There was no fear of intimidation about coming to Lansdowne Road anymore . . . that wasn't supposed to happen.

It's as close to the Swiss Army Knife of rewards cards as it gets. It all comes down to simple math.

It's a huge game for Swiss hockey. We battled hard, we played hard and we played the way we wanted to play. It was a huge effort for us.

For fifteen years I've had Swiss clients who tell me that it's a mystery how the French react to their own artists, especially the painters.

It's great for Swiss hockey that we won. We have to be careful because it's one game.

It's positive, the majority of the Swiss electorate has supported the bilateral path,

It's sort of like Swiss cheese. All the holes have not lined up at the same time.

Swiss banks have taken a number of steps to redress past mistakes and provide assistance to Holocaust survivors.

Swiss bank accounts. If O'Neill is waking up and smelling the coffee, things must be really bad.

It was a bit like going from the Swiss Franc or the German Mark to the Euro.

Against Cyprus, it's simple: we have to score. I think three goals more than the Swiss if the Swiss win in Ireland.

Server consolidation is the most obvious, long-standing use case, but virtualization is like a Swiss army knife. You can use it in a number of different situations.

In general, given a choice between a device designed to be dedicated for a specific task (or a few tasks) and a general-purpose device that addresses the same needs -- without seeming like a clunky Swiss Army Knife device brick -- I'll take the general-purpose device every time.

In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts.

I'm surprised the Swiss franc is not stronger given the tape was authenticated.

I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.

Clearly the Iran situation is the key focus at the moment, our view is that eventually it will settle down, but it's expected to rumble on for a while and so maybe at the margins slightly supportive of the safe-haven currencies like the Swiss Franc.

Certain phrases stick in the throat, even if they offer nothing that is analytically improbable. 'A dashing Swiss officer' is one such. Another is 'the beautiful Law Courts.

Generally speaking, the rule is that any account that lies dormant in a Swiss bank for 20 years, no deposits no withdrawals...the money reverts to the bank. In other words, they keep it.

I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

I don't think the Swiss will have been expecting (that),

It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.

The majority of the Swiss people have again endorsed the bilateral path,

The IETF is interested in building something like a Swiss Army knife. We give you the tools and you can go build your network. If you don't have the right tools, then you can come back and identify the tools you need and we'll build them.

You've built this great firewall in front of your enterprise, but the back of your enterprise is like Swiss cheese,

The Egyptian authorities have confirmed to us that among the dead is one Swiss victim.

The direct consequence was to push the Swiss franc higher against the euro in cross trading.

Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.

The Marty report has more holes than a Swiss cheese. It is sad that Mr Marty refuses to accept the categorical denials of the Polish and Romanian governments.

The mechanical elements for closure are in place. In many respects, Swiss bankers and authorities have come to agree on the mechanism and procedures we have struggled for in the last two years.

The market is showing a textbook reaction, buying safe-haven currencies like the Swiss franc and euro and away from the dollar.

Leafy greens such as romaine lettuce, kale, collards, Swiss chard, and spinach are the most nutrient-dense of all foods.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.

Marijuana enhances many things, colors, flavors, sensations, but you are certainly not f**king empowered. When you're stoned, you're lucky if you can find your own goddamn feet. The only way it's a performance-enhancing drug is if there's a big f**king Hershey bar at the end of the run. Then you'll be like a Swiss ski jumper going, "I'm there!

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity

The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.