Swimming Quotes - Page 17

• I am only happy when I am swimming like a fish.

  Duke Kahanamoku

  Fishes

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• On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Falling In Love, Thinking

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• Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

  Mark Twain

  People, Giving, Lessons

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• I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!

  Brittany Murphy

  Real, Character, Phones

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.

  Simon Hoggart

  Thinking, Law, Two

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• Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Land, Circles, Miracle

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So let us sleep outside tonight, lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely ... One sweet world around a star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming, and here we will rest in peace.

  Dave Matthews

  Mother, Sweet, Rest In Peace

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• When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time

  Bill Gross

  Long, Naked, Tides

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• I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

  Beth Orton

  Love Is, Sea, Water

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Ocean, Mean, Two

  Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”

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• Nothing is nicer than diving with your eyes open. Diving down as far as the shimmering legs of your mother and father who have just come back from swimming and now are wading to shore through the shallow water. Nothing more fun than to tickle them and to hear, muffled by the water, how they shriek because they know it will make their child happy.

  Jenny Erpenbeck

  Mother, Children, Fun

  Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.62, Granta Books

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• I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

  Diana Nyad

  Thinking, Florida, Cuba

  "Diana Nyad's impossible dream should be saluted, not scorned" by Jill Homer, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2012.

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• Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.

  Russell Simmons

  Strong, People, Tides

  Twitter post from Aug 5, 2017

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• I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.

  Julia Mancuso

  Free Diving, Surfing, Paddling

  "Olympic Skier Julia Mancuso Trains in Sand, Not Snow". Interview with Cristina Goyanes, www.shape.com. October 21, 2013.

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• I do weights a few times a week. Not a lot of heavy weights. I do it just to keep my muscle toned. With the martial arts, I am doing pretty basic stuff. I do some sparring. If I get a chance, I will go swimming or running in-between. I keep in pretty good shape between films.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Running, Weight, Shapes

  "EXCLUSIVE: Dolph Lundgren Is Universal Soldier: Regeneration!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 12, 2010.

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• I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.

  Jillian Lauren

  Over You, Arms, Faces

  Jillian Lauren (2010). “Some Girls: My Life in a Harem”, p.68, Penguin

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• When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

  James Wan

  Aquariums, Action, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.

  Michael Phelps

  Hands, Goal, Wanted

  "After College Graduation, What? Cultivating How to 'Think-Beyond'" by Vinita Gupta, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2016.

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• While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

  Mao Zedong

  Thinking, Security Guards, Rivers

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• Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man's going round the world on his hands and knees, climbing its mountains, crossing its valleys, swimming its rivers, going through all manner of hardship in order to attain it. But we do not get it in that way. It is to him who believes.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Believe, Men, Climbing

  Dwight L Moody (1998). “God's Abundant Grace”, p.14, Moody Publishers

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• I used to hate swimming at school so much that I would always sneak downstairs in the middle of the night and take my swimming costume out of my gym bag and hide it in the house somewhere. Then I'd never have to go swimming at school. This went on for months and I never got caught and my Mum turned into a nervous wreck because the thought she was losing her memory... and then one day she caught me and got super angry. That was kind of bad.

  Charli XCX

  Memories, Hate, School

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Warrior, Blue

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate what other people do with their hands and feet to keep their heads above water, and, finally, you learn to swim by practicing swimming. Trying to solve problems, you have to observe and to imitate what other people do when solving problems, and, finally, you learn to do problems by doing them.

  George Polya

  Education, Math, Hands

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• A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine arms are very strong and sturdy. Swimming hath helped to make them so, but only because thou hast had the will to do it. Fret not, my son. None of us is perfect. It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.

  Marguerite de Angeli

  Beautiful, Strong, Lying

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• I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing

  Pieter van den Hoogenband

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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