Heist 2001 - Timewatch: Banking With Hitler TV - Ronald Top TV - Ripley's Believe It Or Not! 2006 - Decoding the Past: The Templar Code TV - Andre Gide - Sydney Smith - Ernest Hemingway - P J O’Rourke - Simon Hoggart - Mark Twain - Jay Leno - Jerry Seinfeld -
I never liked the Swiss. They make them little clocks. These two cocksuckers come out of them. These little hammers. Hit each other on the head. What kind of sick mentality is that? Heist 2001 starring Gene Hackman & Danny De Vito & Delroy Lindo & Rebecca Pidgeon & Ricky Jay & Sam Rockwell et al, director David Mamet, Pinky
Swiss banks stand accused of collaborating with the Nazis. But it wasn’t just Swiss bankers who dealt with Hitler’s Reich. New evidence shows that many who financed him came from uncomfortably closer to home. Timewatch: Banking with Hitler, BBC 1998
British pioneer George Stephenson came to Switzerland in the late 1840s to advise on railway construction. The trouble was a conventional train could never climb such a steep slope because the smooth train wheels don’t have enough grip against the smooth rails ... The funicular railway is amazingly simple. Two cars on a cable, some water and a pair of buckets! Ronald Top, More Industrial Revelations s4e9: Europe - Steaming up the Alps, Discovery 2006
It was all about clogs and teeth. ibid.
Welcome aboard the steepest rack railroad in the world ... Over a hundred and fifteen years later tourists are still happy to trust their lives to a nineteenth century technology of cogs and racks. ibid.
It is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 p.m. if you live in an apartment. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006
Switzerland may have proved the perfect place for the Templar’s military skills and their business acumen. Decoding the Past s1e17: The Templar Code, History 2005
What cleanliness everywhere! You dare not throw your cigarette into the lake. No graffiti in the urinals. Switzerland is proud of this: but I believe this is just what she lacks: manure. Andre Gide, diary entry 10th August 1917
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland. Sydney Smith, letter to Lord Holland 1815
90Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. Ernest Hemingway
If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked. P J O’Rourke
Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly. Simon Hoggart
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it. Mark Twain
Switzerland would be a mighty big place if it were ironed flat. Mark Twain
Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it. Jay Leno
The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off. I’ve got the toe clippers right here.’ Jerry Seinfeld