Swiss Quotes
89 Swiss quotes by 82 unique authors
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One of the weaknesses of Indian industry is that in many areas.. like consumer goods.. it is very fragmented. Individually, the companies might not be…
— Ratan Tata
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WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell…
— Julian Assange
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Leafy greens such as romaine lettuce, kale, collards, Swiss chard, and spinach are the most nutrient-dense of all foods.
— Joel Fuhrman
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They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
— Paul Theroux
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Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
— Richard Ernst
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In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient…
— Charles Lyell
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The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.
— Donna Leon
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In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.
— Mariella Frostrup
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TV can reach broad audiences, mass audiences, niche audiences; it can be local, regional, national; it can be spots, sponsorship, interactive. It can be anything…
— Nick Manning
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The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period…
— David Berlinski
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The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed…
— Charles Heiser
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A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor…
— Wilbur Smith
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We have to still develop the IKEA group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
— Ingvar Kamprad
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There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'
— Timothy Keller
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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask…
— Bill Watterson
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We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and…
— George Mikes
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They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
— Emil Ruder
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Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's…
— Philip Yancey
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Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.
— Lloyd Grove
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Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and…
— Claud Cockburn
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They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.
— Bob Dylan
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Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no…
— Newt Gingrich
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God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one…
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
Who Wrote These Swiss Quotes
82 authors contributed a total of 89 Swiss Quotes, led by these top contributors: