#switzerland

We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for. ↗

— Fred Frith

#band #could #couple #felt #first

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true. ↗

— Samuel Schmid

#being #island #joke #land #never

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy. ↗

— Geraldine Chaplin

#change #crazy #drives #hear #i

And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#belgium #case #countries #everywhere #five

That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit. ↗

— Mercer Reynolds

#being #center #day #first #hit

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#inferior #look #scotland #sort #switzerland

So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#been #change #conclusions #considered #draw

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

— Norman Granz

#europe #going #i #live #moved

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! ↗

— Graham Greene

#clock #cuckoo #democracy #did #five

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#always #army #does #go #i