Swim Quotes - Page 29

• I know a lot of people who are philosophers and they sit by the river and talk about what that underwater world might look like. And I'll say 'Dive in, man, and go see it. Swim around. You'll be okay.

  Stana Katic

  Men, Rivers, People

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• I swim when I am injured. What the best guys do is so hard. Michael Phelps is the best.

  Usain Bolt

  Guy, Injured, Hard

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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• Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, Ok Jerry?

  Denis Leary

  Swimming, Tuesday, Wife

  Denis Leary (1992). “No Cure for Cancer”, Anchor

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• I was blessed to grow up on a farm, and when you're a farm boy, exercise is part of your lifestyle. Like it or not, that environment makes you work out. On the farm, nature is your gym. You walk and run and swim and have to do a lot of work with animals too.

  Cesar Millan

  Running, Growing Up, Blessed

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• One thing that influenced me in the States when I was doing this recording was American people feeding me things like Arnold Dreyblatt, even things I should've heard back in New Zealand like Peter Jefferies and Jono Lonie 'At Swim 2 Birds.

  Roy Montgomery

  People, Bird, Feeding

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• I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Morning, Swimming, Bed

  Tony Brown, Jimi Hendrix (2012). “Jimi Hendrix: 'Talking'”, p.130, Music Sales Group

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• We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know one thing for certain: we wish to live. We share this yearning for life and love with all the beings that fly, grow, slither or swim amongst us.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Life And Love, Understanding, Wish

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think it gave us the freedom to be more creative and do things the way we wanted to do them, so if a label liked it that was cool and if they didn't like it fine. Ultimately it was up to us to sink or swim and there was nobody telling us what direction to go in. I think that made the entire record more diverse.

  Jason C. Miller

  Thinking, Creative, Labels

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

  Kevin Hart

  Team, Guy, Way

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• Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Distance, Exercise

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

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• Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.

  Emile Zola

  Fire, Lakes, Snakes

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• There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

  Dick Cavett

  Swimming, Yale, Class

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• Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sea, Rivers, Bird

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• You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Piano, Benches

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• Inspiration is a divine element inside our life. When we are inspired, we try to climb up the Himalayas. When we are inspired, we try to swim the English Channel. When we are in spired, we go from one country to another country to inspire people and to be inspired by them. I feel that when we inspire humanity, we automatically become good citizens of the world. This is my philosophy. My weightlifting feats I have done solely to inspire humanity.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Country, Philosophy, Inspiration

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• The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

  Paul Allen

  Regret, Wish, Pacific

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I do have one regret though. I wish Kathy Acker was still alive. I wish I could go swim with her again. My literary indebtedness to her is enormous. She's a more important mother to me than anyone can possibly imagine. In language I became a daughter worth a crap because of her. In language I redefined daughter, woman, I became a writer. Dora is an homage of sorts.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Daughter, Mother, Regret

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources - from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions of peasants cutting down trees for their incredibly inefficient cook stoves.

  Denis Hayes

  Kids, Cutting, Lakes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The tough thing is how to cultivate a life where the paramecium of happiness gets a lot of chances to get out and swim and make more paramecia. That seems like an obvious universal goal for most humans.

  Leigh Newman

  Goal, Chance, Tough

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use their time to do other things, like read books or swim or talk to their children or read websites or listen to music or write books or lie in bed or sit in a chair. I don't think any of these things are more positive than any other things. I don't think having an internet presence helps financially.

  Tao Lin

  Children, Lying, Book

  "Tao Lin: They See Me Trolling". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 4, 2011.

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• I said to my girlfriend, you shouldn't eat before you swim. She said, "why not"? I said, you look fat.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

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• Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim by reading a book about swimming and nobody learns how to write by reading a book about writing. If you want to learn how to write, write a lot and you will get better at it.

  Robert Munsch

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Sink or swim! You never really feel ready, there is always sometime more that your mind tells you you should be doing. However, the trick is to be able to show up and perform no matter what the circumstance.

  Natalie Cook

  Mind, Matter, Able

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• What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I do that.

  Jillian Medoff

  Two, Watches, Tvs

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.

  Nneka

  Exercise, Work Out, Way

  "Nneka: Neo-Soulful Voice of Nigeria". Interview with Ebony, www.ebony.com. June 24, 2015.

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