Top 100 Quotes About Swiss
#1. What do you have in this car?" he asked.
"What do you mean, like weapons?"
"That would be a good start."
"Well, I 've got a mini Swiss Army Knife on my key chain."
"A two-inch stainless steel blade and a nail file. They might as well surrender to us now ...
Richard Castle
#2. If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.
Woody Allen
#5. I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!
Christine Lavin
#6. We need to a new word to describe Swiss happiness.
Eric Weiner
#7. 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.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#8. A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.
Shashi Tharoor
#9. They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
Emil Ruder
#10. I cannot keep myself away from ice cream. I have two flavors that are my favorite: chocolate chip cookie dough and vanilla swiss almond. I can eat a whole pint of ice cream in one sitting, no problem!
Brandi Chastain
#11. Swiss Cheese is a rip-off It's the only cheese I can bite into and miss
Mitch Hedberg
#12. Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.
Lloyd Grove
#13. The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
Dorothy Parker
#14. Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.
Truman Capote
#15. Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!
Arthur Miller
#16. I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.
Geraldine Chaplin
#17. Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss
Can never hope to wage a Global Mission.
No Holy Wars for them. The most the small
Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
Robert Frost
#18. We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!
Nigel Farage
#19. Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.
Eoin Colfer
#20. I like wearing gloves made of cheese (Swiss), and then going around asking elderly men if they want a knuckle sandwich.
Jarod Kintz
#21. A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.
Conan O'Brien
#22. Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss army knives.
Sherman Alexie
#23. 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
#24. Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#25. In promoting Sino-Swiss economic ties, transnational companies, such as Nestle,played an active role.
Wu Bangguo
#26. I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.
Albert Einstein
#27. Swiss watchmaking and Silicon Valley is a marriage of technological innovation with watchmaking credibility. Our collaboration provides a rich host of synergies, forming a win-win partnership, and the potential for our three companies is enormous,
Jean-Claude Biver
#28. My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
Q'orianka Kilcher
#29. My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks.
Joan Rivers
#30. 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.
Sophie Hunger
#31. The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.
William Poundstone
#32. For some reason, there is a purity to the Swiss Alps - a certain energy - that is very reminiscent of my snowboarding experiences in the Himalayas.
Frederick Lenz
#33. The Swiss will never be the wild child of Europe; you only have to look at their lovingly tended vegetable patches to see that. But whether they are boring or not most likely depends on the eye of the beholder.
Clare O'Dea
#35. 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.
Nick Harkaway
#36. Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed ... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it
Marissa Mayer
#37. A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.
China Mieville
#38. Yet torture is above all an art, an artistic discipline just like literature , cinema, or contemporary dance. All detained in the City-State ghettos bitterly missed the torturers of yesteryears, those monsters who worked with the precision of a Swiss watch-maker.
Fiston Mwanza Mujila
#39. Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#40. [ ... ] from what I'd been able to ascertain online, the Swiss were a reassuringly practical people. They had a long, proud history of staying out of wars, preferring to devote themselves to more constructive endeavours like science, secure banking and building extremely accurate clocks.
Gavin Extence
#41. Remember the Wizard Archer's drill arrows that rescued the entombed miners? Well, we're drilling holes in your swiss cheese building to rescue you from a costly boner!
Robert Bernstein
#42. The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
William Faulkner
#43. 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
#44. 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.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#45. Einstein, like myself, found Bern pleasant but boring. And so I wonder: If the Swiss were more interesting, might he never have daydreamed as much as he did? Might he never have developed the Special Theory of Relativity? In other words, is there something to be said for boredom?
Eric Weiner
#46. We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
Ingvar Kamprad
#47. The running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort?
Mimi Pond
#48. 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 you want it to be. I tend to think of TV as the Swiss Army knife of media, it's got something for everybody.
Nick Manning
#49. We broke into Mir using a Swiss Army knife. Never leave the planet without one.
Chris Hadfield
#50. A number of his friends whose wilfully overburdened lives inhibited the enjoyment of all but necessary pleasures somehow found time to take afternoon tea with the Ackroyds in their neat Edwardian villa in Swiss Cottage with its comfortable sitting-room and atmosphere of timeless indulgence.
P.D. James
#51. 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 countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.
Wilbur Smith
#52. 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 centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon.
Julian Assange
#53. I am proud of my husband, Marcus, the love of my life, and his Swiss heritage. Even though I have been a dual citizen since I was married in 1978, I have never exercised any rights of that citizenship.
Michele Bachmann
#54. Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.
Karl Barth
#55. Sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self defense and I won't go to prison.
Mark Haddon
#56. By the time the Freedom Flights, to use the US description, came to an end, more than 260,000 Cubans had been airlifted to the United States, every one of them registered by the Swiss before they left Cuba.
Clare O'Dea
#57. Researched Heinrich Fuchs. There were a lot of Fuchs in Splugen. Splugen was full of dumb Fuchs. The Swiss are famous for maintaining neutrality, except, apparently, when it comes to shooting at monstrous bugs with someone else's sperm.
Andrew Smith
#58. I've always enjoyed playing in Paris, ever since I was a junior and won the junior event there. Being Swiss, this is the Grand Slam that is closest to us - the one we watch first and visit first if we are lucky enough.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#59. The common argument that men are naturally polygamous and women naturally monogamous is as full of holes as Swiss cheese.
Frans De Waal
#60. You look at our borders, they're like swiss cheese, everybody pours in.
Donald Trump
#61. 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.
Charles Lyell
#62. Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it.
Herve Falciani
#63. What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people? Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.
Nancy Pearcey
#64. The Pope is guarded by the Swiss guard who stand proudly in pajamas and silly hats.
Eddie Izzard
#65. I'll splurge on Toblerone. I love Toblerone with the Swiss chocolate and nougat in it.
Jordin Sparks
#66. A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot
Allen Iverson
#67. 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 and made San Francisco Bay.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#70. There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'
Timothy Keller
#71. Above all the genuine philosopher will generally seek lucidity and clarity and will always strive not to be like a turbid, raging, rain-swollen stream, but much more like a Swiss lake, which, in its peacefulness, combines great depth with a great clarity that just reveals its great depth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#72. I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.
Peter Zumthor
#73. The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.
Jean Ziegler
#74. But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have a Swiss Army knife if they hit me.
Mark Haddon
#75. I eat swiss cheese. But I only nibble on it. I make the holes bigger.
Steven Wright
#76. She was so full of holes now, she was like a Swiss cheese.
Danielle Steel
#77. We both like Marlboro Reds, both eat pastrami and Swiss, and both have holes in our hearts big enough to swallow us whole. What the fuck?
C.M. Stunich
#78. See this Swiss army knife, Lawless! It's gotta magnifying glass and a million blades but I only need one, so step right the fuck back!
Jonathan Dunne
#79. I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
Benazir Bhutto
#80. I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman ... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.
Trevor Noah
#81. 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.
Allison Williams
#82. I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.
Klaus Schwab
#84. The Swiss are the only nation to make the Germans appear inefficient, the French undiplomatic and the Texans poor.
Paul Bilton
#85. The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
Eoin Colfer
#86. 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 seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.
Claud Cockburn
#87. With an eye toward changing the way millions grow older, Novartis, the $260 billion Swiss pharmaceutical giant, has begun taking the first steps to position a version of rapamycin as the first true anti-aging drug.
Anonymous
#88. Einstein didn't invent the theory of relativity while he was multitasking at the Swiss patent office.
quoting, David Meyer, a cognitive scientist at the University of Michigan
Winifred Gallagher
#89. Leafy greens such as romaine lettuce, kale, collards, Swiss chard, and spinach are the most nutrient-dense of all foods.
Joel Fuhrman
#90. Dedicated ereaders are as sharp as steak knives in doing what they're supposed to do, which is let you read books. The iPad is more like a Swiss Army knife
it can cut the steak and uncork a wine bottle, and there's even a toothpick to use when you're done eating! It's got it all.
Jason Merkoski
#91. 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 models of our hardworking farmer/nurse mother, a pair of junior Swiss Army knives, born to multitask.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#92. As a Swiss writer once said, "We wanted a labor force but human beings came," and what nobody had foreseen was that those workers would bring their mosques, their holy book, and huge swathes of their culture with them.
Terry Hayes
#93. You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war !
Chris Rock
#94. Swiss cheese is the only cheese you can draw and people can identify. You can draw American cheese, but someone will think it's cheddar. It's the only cheese you can bite and miss. "Hey Mitch - does that sandwich have cheese on it?" "Every now and then!"
Mitch Hedberg
#95. Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.
Steven Johnson
#96. I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film.
Tommy Kirk
#97. Hard-bitten had a double meaning: bitten hard by life, like her, or clamping meanly down on other people. But, as though belying his thoughts, she said, "I hope your days are good."
"If only. My eyes, you know, are like Swiss cheese, the doctor says. I see through the holes.
Edward Hoagland
#98. Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.
Richard Preston
#99. My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.
Christopher Buckley
#100. The narration had lasted for the better part of an hour despite Markus's increasingly frequent and obvious glances at his Swiss watch, and left all the others in a strange combination of spellbound, bored, horrified, and bemused.
Neal Stephenson
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