Swimming Quotes - Page 22

• She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there

  Julia Gregson

  Thinking, Feet, Water

  Julia Gregson (2010). “East of the Sun”, p.198, Hachette UK

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• I see you that have a little swimming mouse

  David Sedaris

  Littles, Mice

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• I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.

  Jo Brand

  Exercise, People, Laughing

  "Jo Brand: fat jokes matter". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it is not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. For most people, when they saw a swimming pool, they thought, ‘Let's take a swim.' But I thought, ‘Let's ride it.' When they saw the curb or a street, they would think about driving on it. I would think about the texture. I slowly developed the ability to look at the world through totally different means.

  Ian MacKaye

  Sports, Mean, Thinking

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• Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Garden

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• I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that our universe consists of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us. Some scientists sneer at the mention of higher dimensions because they cannot be conveniently measured in the laboratory.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Space, Next

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• I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.

  James Hilton

  Dog, Night, Long Walks

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• Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.

  Michael Phelps

  Fun, Golf

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• Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

  Edward Rowland Sill

  Success, Academic Excellence, Classroom

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• If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.

  T. Harv Eker

  Eagles, Ducks, Want

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• Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?

  Mark Bittman

  Filth, Salmon, Natural

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• I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

  Ian Botham

  Struggle, Thinking, Excited

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• Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Water, Way, Danger

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• I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

  Betty Ford

  Golf, Empty Life, People

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• I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

  Brian May

  Garden, Lucky, Kind

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• After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

  Eric Shanteau

  Cancer, Levels, Diagnosis

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• Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Adventure, Two

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• I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, That's it.

  Brooke Burns

  Girl, Night, Light

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• I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

  Colin Firth

  Cutting, Thinking, Ties

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• I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

  James Garner

  Wife, Saws, Married

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• I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.

  Maria Menounos

  Thinking, People, Pool

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

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• If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Teacher, Jobs, Stars

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• The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

  Amanda Beard

  Community, Conservative, Clothings

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• I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t visit relatives, can’t get a job, can’t have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.

  Candy Darling

  Jobs, May, Prison

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• In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

  Amanda Beard

  Baby, Grandma, Bizarre

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