Swimming Quotes - Page 24

• This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

  Shirley Knight

  Dream, Morning, Garden

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• With the Special Ops Warrior Foundation's help, we put 266 kids through college last year. And that's what keeps me going. I'll be honest, I don't like running. I don't like biking. I don't like swimming. I do it to raise money. But, now that I'm in this sport, I want to see how far I can push myself. What makes me tick is that pain you feel when you do these ultramarathons. I love knowing that everyone's suffering because I know I can suffer just a little bit more. I can take a lot of pain.

  David Goggins

  Sports, Running, Pain

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• Women in the public eye and on TV are often scrutinized for how they look so I know how easy it would be to fall into the trap of taking on board this negativity. The healthiest way for me to deal with it is by being fit and healthy through activities like swimming, which helps me focus on what my body can do rather than what it looks like.

  Gabby Logan

  Fall, Eye, Focus

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• If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?

  Peter Boettke

  Gold, Legs, Arms

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• I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

  Esther Williams

  Movie, Would Be, Made

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• All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Love, Pregnancy, Floating

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• But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I close my eyes, however, I can again feel the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, the rudder bar beneath my feet. I can sense the freedom and the cleanliness and all the things which a pilot knows.

  Saburo Sakai

  Eye, Hands, Years

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• Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

  David Lynch

  Falling In Love, Writing, Fishing

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• I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

  Xavier Cugat

  Inspirational, Play, Musical

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• No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

  Esther Williams

  Underwater, Done, Movement

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

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• What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten... Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day.

  Rob Ford

  Heart, Sharks, People

  Remarks on cyclist, bicycling.com, May 3, 2012.

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• Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

  Lionel Trilling

  Wind, Conscious, Judaism

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• I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sleep, Dna, Years

  "Ozzy Osbourne genome sequenced" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

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• The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.

  Leanne Shapton

  Stronger, Body, Achieve

  Leanne Shapton (2012). “Swimming Studies”, p.188, Penguin

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• I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.

  David Fincher

  Ocean, Gone, Things I Love

  "David Fincher: All the best connections" by Tim Walker, www.independent.co.uk. October 8, 2010.

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• If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

  Steven Levitt

  Children, Gun, Yards

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• When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of our daily lives – it’s unfaked folk art. The dancers, crashing wave upon wave into those falls, have a happy insane spirit that recalls a unique moment in American life – the time we did the school play or we were ready to drown at a swimming meet. The last time most of us were happy in that way.

  Arlene Croce

  Art, Fall, School

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• The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'

  Alex Kapranos

  Football, Stars, War

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• In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.

  Thomas Cahill

  Imagination, Depth, Noble

  FaceBook post by Thomas Cahill from Jan 12, 2012

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• Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in a match. The commonplace is the habitual, and the habitual is a mystery that has grown stale from sense-insistence. Life undulates; there is no such thing as a level; a straight line is a myth, and all directions are indirections.

  Benjamin De Casseres

  Eye, Cells, Differences

  "Chameleon: Being a Book of My Selves".

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• The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

  Romare Bearden

  Artist, Whales, Needs

  Myron Schwartzman, Romare Bearden (1990). “Romare Bearden, his life & art”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.

  Jon Foreman

  Way To Live, Drowning, Existence

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• It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sunset, People, Floating

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• Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.

  Rachel Miner

  Crazy, Real, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's... it's such a weird thing. After Garden State, so many companies wanted to make my movies, and after The Last Kiss, I realized people would make anything I was in. As long as I keep this up I'll be swimming in chubby indie girl pussy.

  Zach Braff

  Girl, Kissing, Garden

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