Words matter. These are the best Swiss Quotes from famous people such as Matthew Walker, Vick Hope, Xherdan Shaqiri, Richard Cohen, Vladimir Prelog, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.
My mum’s from a very rural village in Nigeria, she grew up in a war, and for her it was really important that my brothers and I knew how to fend for ourselves. My dad bought me a Swiss army knife for my 13th birthday and we used to go camping and he showed me how to light fires.
I live the Swiss mentality but the Kosovo mentality too, because when I go home, I speak Albanian.
It’s all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United States – if first I get a chance to bust him one in the mouth.
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.
I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I’m Swiss, but I’m actually German. I’m from Germany. It’s a small country. You don’t have as many great actors there, of course.
I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film.
Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It’s a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.
My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.
The Swiss can be very difficult.
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?
The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
Cern’s colliders usually shut down for a winter break, because the cost of electricity increases as the temperature drops and the Swiss turn on their heaters and tuck into their fondue.
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.
Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it’s completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It’s all the participants in the network enforcing.
I’ll splurge on Toblerone. I love Toblerone with the Swiss chocolate and nougat in it.
It’s interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.
It’s very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
My dad’s in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they’re really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.
We saw ‘Swiss Army Man’ and fell in love with the Daniels, who are adventurous filmmakers and radical storytellers, pushing the boundaries.
I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.
The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats – German, Swiss, Canadian, American – would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
The video for ‘Last Christmas’ was shot in the early winter of 1984 in the Swiss ski resort of Saas Fee. It was a glorious affair, and the two days we spent shooting it were a riot of laughter and fun, which I think comes across.
We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.
Cheese is good. And Britain, despite the grumblings of the French and the outrage of the Swiss, not to mention some plucky challenges from Italy, Austria, and Spain, has some of the best cheese in the world. We’re world leaders in cheese.
A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap – turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.
My father’s Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I’m also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
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.
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.
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 wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.
If the U.K. wants a commercial access treaty to the European market, the British must contribute to the European budget like the Norwegians and the Swiss do. If London doesn’t want that, then it must be a total exit.
I never used to be taken seriously as a Swiss person.
