Swim Quotes - Page 24

• And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.

  Casper Van Dien

  Horse, Reading, Writing

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• Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

  Hope Davis

  Summer, Beach, New York

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

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• Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

  Antonia Fraser

  Exercise, Zest, Cinema

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• No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

  Nick Cave

  Kings, Born, Fishes

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.99, Penguin UK

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• They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

  Lou Reed

  Coffee, Blood, Evil

  Song: The Blue Mask

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• I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.

  Ray Davies

  Peace, Special, World

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• If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.

  Hermann Bondi

  Creativity, Science, Persistence

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• I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.

  Matt Cameron

  Running, Motorcycle, Trying

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• I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.

  Summer Sanders

  Brother, Team, Swimming

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• I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Body, Helping, Clear

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• I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4.

  Audrina Patridge

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• I don't swim! That's like athletic.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Athletic

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• Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Ocean, Buddhism

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• I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

  Ian Thorpe

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

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• I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

  Ian Thorpe

  Easy, Broke, Faster

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

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• Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh they are all pathways to what I think God must be.

  Jennifer Beals

  Daughter, Running, Thinking

  More Magazine Interview, December 2010.

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• Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you pay attention, if you don't look in the direction of your thoughts, you meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Looks, Attention

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• Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an East or a West issue. It's an issue that all of us have a stake in. And if I can do anything to make sure that not just my daughter but every child in America has green pastures to run in and clean air to breathe and clean water to swim in, then that is something I'm going to work my hardest to make happen.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Running, Children

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• I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.

  Michael Fassbender

  Ocean, Seeing

  "Director Ridley Scott, Writer Damon Lindelof and Michael Fassbender Talk PROMETHEUS at WonderCon 2012". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 18, 2012.

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• I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Pride, Boys

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

  Thomas Hood

  Sweet, Air, Bells

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.456

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• Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

  Alfred Adler

  Mistake, Persistence, Way

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• When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, Rights, Blue

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1926). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.

  Anna Quindlen

  Education, College, Kickers

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.194, Ballantine Books

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• When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Struggle, Fighting, Trout

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