F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."
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Switzerland
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it."
Sydney Smith
Writer
"I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen."
Andy Warhol
Artist, Filmmaker
"Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do."
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"I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great."
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"I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters."
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"You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland."
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"Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas."
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"This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!"
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"In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland."
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"No score in the other game betwen top club and bottom club, Switzerland and Georgia."
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"Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other."
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"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."
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"That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed."
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"Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat."
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