Quotes About Swiss

In matters of food I am French, in matters of love I am Italian, and in matters of business I am Swiss. Very Swiss.

In matters of food I am French, in matters of love I am Italian, and in matters of business I am Swiss.

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.

The sky surprised me. It was a deep blue, the blue of a sorcerer's hat, of night skies in old Technicolor movies, of deep mountain lakes in Swiss countrysides pictured on old puzzle boxes.

The 'Vampire of Ropraz' claims to be based on a true story, but the name of Rosa's father matches that of a notable Swiss artist and restorer. The eventual suspect has the overlong teeth and shambling menace of a would-be vampire, but Chessex leaves the real possibility of his guilt an open question.

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

El papa Pío XII, un tanto alarmado, aunque el suyo era un Estado independiente del italiano, sustituyó las alabardas dd la guardia suiza por metralletas, que no se sabe de dónde las sacó. Dios proveerá, dicen.

Orson Welles, el genio malvadísimo de la cara blanda que se burlaba de la paz suiza, de los relojes cucú, que no tenía moral ni escrúpulos para la penicilina.

My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.

I'm the only one in my family who doesn't cook, but I can do a Swiss dish called frittatensuppe. You make a thin omelet from eggs, flour and parsley, then roll and cut it in the shape of tagliatelle and add broth. It's a tradition we adopted.

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.

Louis Agassiz, the Swiss naturalist who became the most outspoken advocate of the idea that much of Earth had once been covered in ice, but alienated many in the process.

She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all.

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.

The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

Swiss cheese model' of accidents. Imagine a series of safety

We spent afternoons together speeding across the Swiss mountains, blaring Schubert on the car stereo.

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.

Bollywood's Govinda was gyrating his hips in front of a Swiss Alpine landscape.

The vehicle weighed something like six thousand pounds and had more moving parts than a silo full of Swiss watches.

Moreover, a Republic trusting to her own forces, is with greater difficulty than one which relies on foreign arms brought to yield obedience to a single citizen. Rome and Sparta remained for ages armed and free. The Swiss are at once the best armed and the freest people in the world.

The Swiss are well armed and very free.

In 2018, nuclear power provided the highest share of electricity in France (about 72 percent), 50 percent in Hungary, Swiss reactors contributed 38 percent, and in South Korea it was 24 percent, while the share in the US was just below 20 percent.

The difference between a referendum and a plebiscite is a fine one. Both pertain to collective decisions made by the direct vote of all qualified adults. The referendum, which derives from Swiss practice, involves an issue that is provisionally determined in advance, but that is then 'referred' for a final decision by the whole electorate. This