Quotes About Swiss

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.

One way to think of the tax system is as a massive Swiss cheese. Each hole is an exemption created by a chancellor in pursuit of good headlines - a hole waiting to be filled by the clever accountants who work for Starbucks or Jimmy Carr.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.

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.

I love an Omega. I think they're great watches.

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

My first job was a commercial for a Swiss insurance company. It was an eight-minute short with a proper story arc, and it ended up getting a spot at Cannes Lions; I was lucky to avoid the commercials where you're their puppet.

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.

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.

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.

We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

One of my favorite things to cook is fondue. I'm Swiss. It's a great social meal.

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.

It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.

Mom spoke to us in Swiss when we were little.

My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.

It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

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.

Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to.

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.

Pour moi, je n'ai guère cessé de penser, depuis lors, aux incidents de ce voyage. Entre autres projets, j'esquisse une suite de mesures qui, étendant à notre franc l'extrême versatilité du franc suisse, le mettraient assez vite à la portée de toutes les bourses. Ce sera l'objet du petit livre qui fait suite à celui-ci.