Switzerland Quotes

I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.

I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.

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

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

Well, Congress gave us a billion dollars to dig the hole, this gigantic hole. Bigger, much bigger than the hole in Geneva, Switzerland. Then they canceled the machine and gave us a second billion dollars to fill up the hole. Two billion dollars to dig a hole and fill it up. That is the wisdom of the United States Congress and it really makes you wonder: Is there intelligent life on the Earth? Certainly not in the United States Congress.

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

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

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

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

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

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.

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

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

You are...Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence." -Bella

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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

I don't believe in binational states. There are wonderful examples of this, prosperous multinational states: Switzerland, Switzerland and Switzerland. Everywhere else - be it Cyprus, Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union, it ended in a terrible bloodbath.

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

I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate.

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.

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?

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.

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.

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.

[European audiences differ from American] they talk different. The ones in Holland speak Dutch. The ones in Switzerland speak Swiss. That's the only difference.

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

I do miss things about Britain. I think there was a misconception, there definitely was, that I left because of bad press, and being pilloried. I left Britain because I fell in love with someone who lived in Switzerland - that was the main thing.

I'm tellin' ya I get no respect. When I was in Switzerland, I got an obscene yodel.

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

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

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.

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

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

Iraq may still have a decent outcome...but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.

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.