Zurich Quotes

• To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

  Tom Stoppard

  War, Eye, Artist

  Tom Stoppard (2011). “Travesties”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Distance, Soul

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• 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.

  Richard Ernst

  School, Technology, Expectations

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• At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

  Carl Spitteler

  Father, Law, Study

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• Somewhere along the way, New York became all about money. Or rather, it was always about money, but it wasn't all about money, if you know what I mean. New York's not Geneva or Zurich yet, but we're certainly heading in that direction. London is, too.

  Graydon Carter

  New York, Mean, London

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• By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a dream of love melted away.

  Charles Dance

  Daughter, Dream, Heart

  Charles Dance (1833). “The Beulah spa: a burletta in two acts”, p.35

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• The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!

  Konrad Zuse

  Night, Interesting, Relays

  "The First Computers: History and Architectures". Book by Ra L Rojas, p. 270, 2002.

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• How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.

  Woody Allen

  Nephew, Specialists, Feathers

  Without Feathers "Selections from the Allen Notebooks" (1975) See Emily Dickinson 10

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• The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

  Hermann Minkowski

  Young, Mathematical, Physicist

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• When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.

  Eva Zeisel

  Mother, Children, Airports

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• I found myself in Zurich Airport. I'd done a TV show, oddly enough, with Mavis Staples. That's the way they do it in Switzerland. And I'd had a bit of a late night with members of her band. And I was - my flight was delayed. And I was sitting in the airport, and I just came up with the idea. And by the time, we landed at Heathrow, I'd pretty much sort of got it.

  Nick Lowe

  Night, Tv Shows, Ideas

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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