quotes about Zurich

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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“Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper.”
“I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.”

Source : Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.7, Knopf
“For whatever reason, the success still blows my mind - that I'm able to talk to people about the music I've written. I always felt like there was something there because you don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically. I don't mess with that. It's more about just music and trying to keep the integrity, I guess.”
“I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.”
“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Nov 03, 2012
“What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?”
“Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.”
“When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.”

Source : Tony Hatch (1976). “So you want to be in the music business”
“A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.”

Source : Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
“It is rare in a working environment that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I need a compelling account of your childhood.'”

Source : "Inside the Mammoth Backlash to Common Core" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. September 2014.