Swim Quotes - Page 27

• I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.

  Jonathan Winters

  Guy, Cameras, Blame

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• Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food.

  Gary Larson

  Men, Sharks, Water

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• Now it's fantastic, this is a medium that adults should be able to enjoy, it's not just for our kids. I feel like now with Adult Swim and all these different outlets for adults to enjoy animation, it's huge. I love being a part of it, absolutely love it.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Kids, Love Is, Adults

  Source: collider.com

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• Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.

  Sam Walton

  Years, Opposites, Long

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• I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.

  Esther Williams

  Jobs, Order, Cost

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• If I couldn't play drums it would have destroyed me. If you're thrown in the deep end you swim, and that's basically what I did. I had to do it and with the rest of the band behind me and the encouragement I got from people from all over the world, I knew that I was going to play

  Rick Allen

  Encouragement, Play, People

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• If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

  Prince Philip

  Wings, Submarines, Legs

  "Wince Philip: Prince's Most Famous Comments and Clangers". www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2017.

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• For missing a 10 minute swim - I think it was out of order really.

  Gareth Hock

  Thinking, Order, Missing

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• My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Dad, Play, California

  "Five Questions with Ashley Tisdale". www.seventeen.com. July 31, 2007.

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• Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Air, Water, Bird

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• I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

  Eric Shanteau

  Dad, Missing, Would Be

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• There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim
  I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

  Laura Marling

  Regret, Rivers, House

  Song: Alas I Cannot Swim, 2008

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• I can't swim. I can float. But nothing could prepare me for that, to be honest. I mean, cold is cold and this was quite extreme. I actually treasure that experience, because it was challenging enough for me to discover new strength in me. Especially the discipline and the ability to concentrate and focus so much on one thing that I can overcome some obstacles and boundaries.

  Alicja Bachleda-Curus

  Mean, Discipline, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

  Tea Leoni

  Ocean, Sharks, Littles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.

  Fatema Mernissi

  Nature, Stars, Water

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• But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain.

  Billy Collins

  Song, Rain, Home

  Billy Collins (1995). “The art of drowning”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!" ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr

  Lloyd Alexander

  Daughter, Princess, House

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• The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Water, Secret

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?”, p.1, Random House

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• All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Wise, Men, People

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• Inspiration is a divine element inside our life. When we are inspired, we try to climb up the Himalayas. When we are inspired, we try to swim the English Channel. When we are in spired, we go from one country to another country to inspire people and to be inspired by them. I feel that when we inspire humanity, we automatically become good citizens of the world. This is my philosophy. My weightlifting feats I have done solely to inspire humanity.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Country, Philosophy, Inspiration

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• Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying, with bad jokes, that Cajuns aren't smart. I would like to state for the record that I disagree with that assessment. Anybody that would build a city
  5 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats who can't swim is a genius.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Smart, New Orleans, Assessment

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• It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.

  Matthew Henry

  Fashion, Religious, Strong

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.126, Harper Collins

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• Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Tides

  Twitter post from Aug 7, 2013

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• One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.

  John Barth

  Teaching, Two, Bird

  Boston Sunday Globe, November 02, 2008.

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• I can jump ship and swim--
  that the ocean will hold me,
  that there's got to be more
  than this boat I'm in.

  Ani DiFranco

  Ocean, Ships, Boat

  Song: Swan Dive, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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