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Peter Bichsel Quotes

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: swiss
Birth: March 24, 1935

Topics

People Want Strange Poets How Exile

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

Here Make Would Scenes Effects

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

Survive You Back Down Go Will

I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life.

Life Good Business Theatre My Life

There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Man Succeed Impossible Political

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

Mercedes Lackey

Good War Ethics People Think Honor

Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in sweeping away traditions accumulated over centuries, today's Turkey would not exist, and the world would be much poorer.

Today Vision Ambition World Energy

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Life Writing My Life Early Become

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Advertising Selling Way Worthless

On the Tube, you never see anyone looking you in your eye. They're all looking down at their screen.

Looking Eye You Down Never See

I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

People Believe Think American Cost

Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Suffering Ambition Person Personal

We're charged by Congress with regulating financial institutions. We take that mission seriously. We are tough supervisors and regulators.

Tough Financial Mission Seriously

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