Swimming Quotes - Page 7

• People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

  Shia LaBeouf

  Dream, Class, People

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• I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

  Don Johnson

  Simple, Sharks, Sea

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• I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

  Boris Johnson

  Jumping, Rivers, Remember

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• I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.

  Woody Harrelson

  Clothes, Trying, Cotton

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• I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.

  Tony Parsons

  Thinking, Guy, Dumb

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• With his back to us, Sean tugs the halter from the mare's head. She kicks out, but he steps out of the way as if it were nothing at all. With a shake of her mane, she leaps mightily into the water. For a moment she struggles over the waves, and then she is swimming. Just a wild black horse in a deep blue sea full of the ashes of other dead boys.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Horse, Struggle, Boys

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.330, Scholastic UK

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• We're all a little tired.

  Michael Phelps

  Tired, Littles

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• I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.

  Michael Phelps

  Trying

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• I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.

  Michael Phelps

  Eye, Able, Way

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• I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Communication, Men

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

  Adrian Bejan

  Running, Impact, Illustration

  "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

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• Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

  Tim Rice

  Fool, Superstar, Pool

  'Herod's Song' (1970; music by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

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• I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

  Cameron Crowe

  Race, People, Water

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• We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We'll take that for right now.

  Michael Phelps

  Records, World, Wanted

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• When we got in the race, we knew what we had to do and knew what we wanted to do. Having three of four guys from the American record 800 free relay is a pretty solid relay, so we thought we could take a crack at the U.S. Open record tonight. We're all a little tired, but that's fifth-fastest American relay ever, so it's not a bad time. We ended tonight on a great note.

  Michael Phelps

  Tired, Race, Guy

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• I wanted to get the fastest time in the world this year, but with everything going on, it's a pretty decent swim, ... I knew I was under world record pace. You could tell by the crowd. You can always tell at these meets when something good is going on because of the crowd.

  Michael Phelps

  Years, Pace, Records

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• I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.

  Sylvia Earle

  Beautiful, Ocean, Important

  "Next@CNN " with Heidi Collins, www.cnn.com. May 18, 2003.

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• I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.

  Michael Phelps

  Race, Giving, Crowds

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• Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.

  Elizabeth Knox

  Rain, Together, Piercings

  Elizabeth Knox (2014). “Dreamhunter: Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet”, p.260, Macmillan

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• Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

  Barbara Sher

  Jobs, Thinking, Water

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• Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.

  Hari Kondabolu

  America, Talking, Racism

  "Hari Kondabolu on Why You Can't Be 'Obsessed With Race' in America" by Jamilah King, www.colorlines.com. February 6, 2014.

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• The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief.

  Zig Ziglar

  Depth, Height, Determined

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• Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Eye, Rivers, Lakes

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• Typically there are little fragments of specific words and images swimming around in my mind, and then at some point, I'll sit down with the guitar and everything will fall into place. It's like your brain is a drain with a bunch of words and images dropping into it, swirling around. The drain is stopped up, but you can feel these things dropping into it. Then at some point, someone comes along and pulls the plug out of the drain and everything comes together in the song.

  Jeff Mangum

  Song, Fall, Brain

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Marijuana has killed far fewer people than swimming pools; it’s the war against it that does all the violence.

  Lawrence Reed

  War, Marijuana, People

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