Swiss Watch Quotes

#1. We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

Richard Sennett

#2. The more you glow, the more you grow. Your light IS your gift to this world.

Indigo Ocean

#3. 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

#4. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

Lemony Snicket

#5. I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

Marianne Faithfull

#6. All our dreams are small and silly until they are big and obvious.

Vatsal Surti

#7. 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

#8. I got in trouble for fondling buns, he whispered.

Alice Clayton

#9. You don't feel like you're hurting yourself when you're cutting. You feel like this is the only way to take care of yourself.

Marilee Strong

#10. Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1 percent, perhaps the greatest is this: the erosion of our sense of identity in which fair play, equality of opportunity, and a sense of community are so important.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#11. 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

#12. The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

Jean-Claude Biver

#13. I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

Dom DeLuise

#14. Walking down the street, weaving in and out of the crowds, I try to think of something - anything - to look forward to.

Tabitha Suzuma

#15. Scoot over," she whispered.
The mattress shook with his movement.
"A little more," she said.
"If I get any closer to the wall," he hissed, "I'll have to buy it dinner.

Melissa Landers

#16. You know there's only two things more beautiful than a good gun
a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.

Borden Chase

#17. If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.

R.C. Sproul

#18. Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

Kurt Vonnegut

#19. I try to do yoga when I can to make sure that I'm flexible and that I'm not going to tear any muscle or pull anything.

Jaimie Alexander