Swimming Quotes - Page 8

• I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.

  Cheryl Hines

  Air, Oxygen, Scuba

  10 Copy quote

• When I was a swimmer and I would lose a heat in something I was doing whether it backstroke or breaststroke, were two of my most strongest strokes, I would look at how whoever it was that won and beat me and think, "What did they do? What were... What were the qualities that they had that I can incorporate into my swimming to make me better?"

  Hilary Swank

  Thinking, Two, Quality

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The vineyard country, russet, reddish, carmine-brown in this season.
  A blue outline of hills above a fertile valley.
  It's warm as long as the sun does not set, in the shade cold returns.
  A strong sauna and then swimming in a pool surrounded by trees.
  Dark redwoods, transparent pale-leved birches.
  In their delicate network, a sliver of the moon.
  I describe this for I have learned to doubt philosophy
  And the visible world is all that remains.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Country, Strong, Philosophy

  9 Copy quote

• Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sports, Rushing, People

  5 Copy quote

• England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Food, Islands, Cooking

  Katherine Mansfield (2009). “Stories”, p.33, Vintage

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not in my element standing around in a bikini in front of strangers. I never stand up in a bikini, even at the swimming pool. I feel like a normal person when it comes to things like that. I'm like any other girl who doesn't want to show her bottom.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Girl, Elements, Want

  7 Copy quote

• In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  White, Water, Tennis

  4 Copy quote

• I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

  Melissa Etheridge

  Taught, Pool, Brad

  5 Copy quote

• Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

  Charles Saatchi

  Whales, People, Figures

  9 Copy quote

• When I started swimming again two years ago, it felt like I was starting from scratch. My mind-set was [to tell myself that] every time I swam, it was going to get easier-and it did. When you're working toward a fitness goal, you just need to start. It's not going to be pretty, your body is going to scream at you, but each time you'll get better.

  Janet Evans

  Years, Two, Goal

  10 Copy quote

• The only way Congress can get one dollar to spend is to take that one dollar from Americans, borrow that one dollar from Americans, or inflate that one dollar from Americans. So, it's very much like the visual image of a swimming pool. A person notes there is a shallow end, so he takes the water out of the deep end and pours it in the shallow end, hoping to raise the height of the water in the pool - and you would call that person stupid.

  Walter E. Williams

  Stupid, Water, Dollars

  9 Copy quote

• The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'

  Devin Townsend

  Rivers, Apathy, Deceit

  12 Copy quote

• Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Burnout, Ultimate

  "Diana Nyad chats about her Cuba to Key West swim". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2011.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.

  Molly Ivins

  Nice, Rap, Home

  7 Copy quote

• Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.

  Tom Rachman

  Fighting, Pages, Journalism

  5 Copy quote

• To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

  Ravi Zacharias

  India, World, Born

  8 Copy quote

• It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

  Mary Daly

  Swim, Like You

  35 Copy quote

• This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it.

  Michael Phelps

  Gold, Firsts, Incredibles

  4 Copy quote

• In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

  Laure Manaudou

  Race, Expectations, Joy

  4 Copy quote

• Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Art, Mean, Ideas

  14 Copy quote

• On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.

  Michael Bolton

  Moving, People, Water

  12 Copy quote

• I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.

  Samantha Stosur

  Workout, Fun, Ocean

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

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I started 'Third Watch,' I knew I was going to be with the firefighters and lifting, so I was doing yoga, running, and swimming - all at the same time. I didn't have a kid then. Now I don't have time for that. I want to spend time with my son and my husband, so it's mainly just yoga now.

  Kim Raver

  Running, Husband, Yoga

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.

  Brie Larson

  Fall, Home, Dark

  7 Copy quote

• I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

  Brie Larson

  Used

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source