Bird flu isn't over in Switzerland. We are not finding cases any more but on the other hand we can b...
MARCEL FALK Our goal was that poultry would not get infected by bird flu and we were successful in this.
MARCEL FALK At the moment Switzerland's goal is protecting its poultry from bird flu.
MARCEL FALK We are already prepared in case bird flu does reach Switzerland. Coordination with the European Unio...
MARCEL FALK To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regul...
FALK HENTSCHEL I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think pe...
FALK HENTSCHEL Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics,...
FALK HENTSCHEL My mom was a huge fan of 'Dirty Dancing.' I couldn't quite get a break, and she was like...
FALK HENTSCHEL I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all ov...
FALK HENTSCHEL The New Jersey Challenge is a terrific educational opportunity for both participants and viewers who...
ADAM FALK The last thing we would want to do is to take Gilman and gut it and turn it into a sterile space. Ho...
ADAM FALK It's not an option to not renovate this building.
ADAM FALK Gilman has passed the point where its problems are still lovable quirks. We need to make it function...
ADAM FALK One hundred years of students have formative memories of Gilman Hall. What we're trying to make sure...
ADAM FALK Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I...
PETER FALK I'm not an ace at small talk.
PETER FALK My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.
PETER FALK What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minu...
PETER FALK I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use c...
PETER FALK They wouldn't take me in the navy because of my glass eye. So I joined the merchant navy, who al...
PETER FALK I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.
PETER FALK Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an...
PETER FALK I was a dancer for about 14 years. I was a martial artist for the same amount of time. I quit that w...
FALK HENTSCHEL To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all the...
PETER FALK There are so many beautiful girls who aren't photogenic. In real life, half the models you see l...
LISANNE FALK You think you're in another civilization, another time, and then you see antennas coming out of ...
PETER FALK I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you'...
PETER FALK It helps an actor an awful lot when he looks like the part. There's nothing more disconcerting, ...
PETER FALK I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw...
PETER FALK When I was a kid, the idea of gettin' paid to paint your face... listen, I grew up in Ossining, ...
PETER FALK The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine ori...
PETER FALK Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier...
PETER FALK When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen.
TERRELL FALK Certainly, you envy the guys that have done all kinds of things, a variety of good scripts and good ...
PETER FALK When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us ...
PETER FALK I don't like getting up in the morning, getting in a car, driving on a freeway, and stopping at ...
PETER FALK It wasn't that we improvised it. We were going to shoot it, but I had the props in my hand, and I wa...
PETER FALK For my money, Patrick McGoohan is the quintessential Columbo adversary.
PETER FALK He sent the script over and I read it that first night, and about page 45 or 50, I called him up and...
PETER FALK Sometimes I see my father in me,
PETER FALK They know there's a gap, and if they're interested in finding out more about why they aren't more co...
PETER FALK In order to be totally spontaneous, you can't be too obsessed with accuracy, but if you're i...
PETER FALK I'm just looking to get through the day.
PETER FALK The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, a...
PETER FALK I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that...
PETER FALK If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
PETER FALK Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.
PETER FALK I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue.
PETER FALK From our view of this program, it was purely to teach teachers to teach religion.
KEN FALK Basically these kids have played together a third year and the four seniors four years. This is thir...
CONRAD FALK It depends how lenient you are with your definition of artist. If you're going to include those ...
PETER FALK In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was ...
PETER FALK I've worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the 'Columbo' show,...
PETER FALK I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start ...
PETER FALK The more defiant Iran becomes, the more the spotlight is on the U.N. to try to find a diplomatic sol...
PAMELA FALK I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New...
PETER FALK I've had lot of them. A lot of people stopped in today (to congratulate me) and said they couldn't b...
BOB FALK He's been on a roll.
BOB FALK I thought we wrestled just super. That was as good as we've wrestled all year. That was a good meet ...
BOB FALK It was automatic. We were always on the same wavelength even before we started shooting.
PETER FALK The epiphany for me was that I knew chimp mommies don't make these noises, so I knew something happe...
DEAN FALK Microsoft's pitch seems to say that big antitrust cases have to take forever or they can't be brough...
DONALD FALK In the theater, you didn't have any marks. Your instincts in rehearsal told you what the blockin...
PETER FALK I think Morris has a fantastic zest for life. He's hit upon something, and that is this central ques...
PETER FALK The focus here is taking out ones that wouldn't make it anyway .
DONALD FALK I'm pretty sure this one was still standing the last time we were here.
DONALD FALK None of the judges in the D.C. Circuit has seen the record in this case yet, which leaves everything...
DONALD FALK This is exactly the kind of case that the Expediting Act is designed for, ... It is not an option th...
DONALD FALK This is not just any case. It's in a narrow category where Congress has provided the option for dire...
DONALD FALK Microsoft is still not coming to grips with what its own people were saying -- about their ability t...
DONALD FALK My heart goes out to him. We just want to be helpful in whatever comes next.
DON FALK It's really, really stressful and difficult work.
DON FALK He spent years helping and feeding the poor. I think he just burned out.
DON FALK Operating costs will go into humanities in variety of ways, [They will go to] replacing the program ...
DEAN FALK Total budget that includes programming, staff and facilities is something over half a million dollar...
DEAN FALK We vocalize continually in a way that helps babies begin to learn language by the end of the first y...
DEAN FALK The behavior of chimp mommies and babies and human mothers and infants are delightfully identical in...
DEAN FALK If I'm a guy reading a newspaper, and I hear this actor who I know gets great seats at basketbal...
PETER FALK If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds...
PETER FALK This is a very intelligent group academically. Most of them are superior honor students as well as b...
CONRAD FALK He's got a little bit extra motivation.
CONRAD FALK Absolutely. The coaches dream is to have a guy who can run the offense and set up other players.
CONRAD FALK The early baskets for him just gave him a lot of confidence. Anyone that gets those early baskets, i...
CONRAD FALK This is what one of the founding fathers of sociology, Emile Durkheim, meant when he wrote in 1895 t...
GERHARD FALK I did do my own stunts.
PETER FALK There still is a lot of negotiating that will have to be completed in November, including the specif...
PAMELA FALK Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and the...
PETER FALK Communication is the biggest area where Siemens need to act, and we don't know exactly what the comp...
FALK REIMANN A restructuring needs a year to work, and I'm not sure the markets have accepted that.
FALK REIMANN The majority of Siemens divisions tend to function very well. We're talking mostly about individual ...
FALK REIMANN Not so fast, my pussy-visaged friend!
LEE FALK Corporate sustainability reporting has grown nearly tenfold in the last decade to almost two thousan...
JAY FALK This new dynamic Web publishing function is extremely easy-to-use and will help corporate social res...
JAY FALK With such major players embracing and validating social investing strategies, it is clear that mains...
JAY FALK Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the...
PETER FALK This was a tragedy that divided a family.
ROGER FALK A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
MARCEL DUCHAMP Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and compos...
MARCEL PROUST Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need...
MARCEL PAGNOL In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
MARCEL MARCEAU It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines...
MARCEL DUCHAMP In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the co...
MARCEL DUCHAMP People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very or...
MARCEL PROUST In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.
MARCEL PROUST The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.
MARCEL PROUST There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a f...
MARCEL PROUST Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliber...
MARCEL PROUST Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An ...
MARCEL PROUST The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "g...
MARCEL PROUST Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the...
MARCEL PROUST I feel that, for each show I've been doing, there's a character that dominates. Then in the ...
MARCEL DZAMA But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
GABRIEL MARCEL It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
GABRIEL MARCEL On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
GABRIEL MARCEL Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
GABRIEL MARCEL The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring bat...
GABRIEL MARCEL But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
GABRIEL MARCEL The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in...
GABRIEL MARCEL Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
GABRIEL MARCEL Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
GABRIEL MARCEL The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
GABRIEL MARCEL Metaphysics is a science.
GABRIEL MARCEL Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
MARCEL ARCHARD Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
ANTHONY MARCEL As the Arab proverb says, The dog barks and the caravan passes. After having dropped this quotation,...
MARCEL PROUST I was not one man only but the steady advance hour after hour of an army in close formation, in whic...
MARCEL PROUST Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls b...
MARCEL PROUST I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true ...
MARCEL PROUST It's good to shut up sometimes.
MARCEL MARCEAU The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUST Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
MARCEL PROUST Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our sou...
MARCEL PROUST Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
MARCEL PROUST The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
MARCEL PROUST To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
MARCEL JOUHANDEAU That translucent alabaster of our memories.
MARCEL PROUST Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the s...
MARCEL PROUST We become moral when we are unhappy.
MARCEL PROUST People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the o...
MARCEL PROUST The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them to...
MARCEL PROUST Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for reveal...
MARCEL PROUST When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dr...
MARCEL PROUST I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
MARCEL MARCEAU I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had a...
MARCEL PROUST All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUST Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
MARCEL PROUST A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
MARCEL PROUST For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating ...
MARCEL PROUST The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to trea...
MARCEL PROUST The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in ...
MARCEL PROUST There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things...
MARCEL PROUST We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
MARCEL PROUST Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions.
MARCEL PROUST All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUST Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
MARCEL PROUST Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreove...
MARCEL PROUST The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, ...
MARCEL PROUST A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
MARCEL PROUST The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUST Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found r...
MARCEL PROUST I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destin...
MARCEL MARCEAU It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
MARCEL PROUST The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those t...
MARCEL PROUST The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.
MARCEL MASSE The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourse...
MARCEL PROUST The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplora...
MARCEL PROUST A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
MARCEL PROUST The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting b...
MARCEL PROUST Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit per...
MARCEL PROUST My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bomb...
MARCEL PAGNOL A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not l...
MARCEL PROUST The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, bec...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain...
MARCEL PROUST I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art -- and much more. It cannot be commercial...
MARCEL DUCHAMP The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a...
MARCEL DUCHAMP The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
MARCEL PROUST It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to...
MARCEL PROUST People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
MARCEL PROUST I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
MARCEL DUCHAMP There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
MARCEL PROUST There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a wa...
MARCEL PROUST It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all e...
MARCEL PROUST Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
MARCEL MARCEAU The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure...
MARCEL ACHARD We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as place...
MARCEL PROUST If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream ...
MARCEL PROUST In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the fee...
MARCEL PROUST The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
MARCEL PROUST Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey
MARCEL PROUST Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUST Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn'...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
MARCEL DUCHAMP Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
MARCEL PROUST Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that y...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at le...
MARCEL PROUST We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
MARCEL PROUST The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST