Swim Quotes - Page 11

• If I don't know how to swim and two weeks later I know how to swim, I know how to swim.

  Nate Parker

  Two, Week, Know How

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.

  Diana L. Eck

  Buddhist, Sea, My Best Friend

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Water has always been a large part of my life, so for me now, being a father with another child on the way, I'm just teaching some of the small things I've been able to learn - and passing that onto the younger generation. Small things like turning your faucet off when you brush your teeth, not taking a 30-minute shower when you really don't need to. So I want to teach the younger generation to spread the message and make a difference. I'm almost more excited to do this than I was to swim.

  Michael Phelps

  Children, Father, Teaching

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

  Stephen Leacock

  Men, Sight, Giving

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.106, McClelland & Stewart

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• At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are.

  John Ratey

  Stress, Wine, Exercise

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• They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Lakes, Sea

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• Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Names, Vision

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.159

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• Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?

  Katy Lederer

  Bridges, Rivers, Doe

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• I'd love to design my own swim collection for them (VS)... Heidi (Klum) does the lipsticks, I would love to one day do the bikinis.

  Marisa Miller

  Design, One Day, Doe

  "Pop Tarts: Hugh Hefner on Playboy Requirements, Hottest Women". Pop Tarts Interview, www.foxnews.com. September 15, 2008.

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• Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

  Jacques Barzun

  Summer, Winter, Psychologist

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• my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

  Miriam Makeba

  Littles, My Thoughts, Fishes

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• I want to get out of the way of the actors. I want to get out of their eye lines. I want to them to stop thinking they're making a movie. I want them to just go and live. It's like you take these great actors and put them in an aquarium of life, and just watch them swim. That's what makes editing tough because you get all these beautiful, unplanned moments.

  Derek Cianfrance

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Swimming, Class, Firsts

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• He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass. You will be necessarily upborne by the air if you can renew any impulse upon it faster than the air can recede from the pressure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Air, Different, Needs

  Samuel Johnson (1850). “The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale”, p.5

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• Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, Swimming, Knowing

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• I do what I can to sort of just stave off the clock - walk, swim, try and smoke an electric cigarette. I mean it's all bad for you. Life is bad. We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.

  Mel Gibson

  Mean, Trying, Dying

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.

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• If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Zero, Truth, Ocean

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

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• Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love Is, Soul, Time Love

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying 'Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.'

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, People

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• If you want to fly with the eagles, don’t swim with the ducks!

  T. Harv Eker

  Eagles, Ducks, Want

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• You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.

  Austin O'Malley

  Life, Hard

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• As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection for their characters. Raunchy is OK. Cruel is not.

  Roger Ebert

  Summer, Character, Tides

  Roger Ebert (2000). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2001”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Lying, Color, Sea

  "Catalogue 10th State Exhibition", Moscow, 1919.

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• I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, Doors, Sharks

  "Wolf Files: Celebrity Phobias" by Buck N.Wolf, abcnews.go.com. December 16, 2003.

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• We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.

  George Pope Morris

  Ocean, Depth, World

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