Swimmer Quotes - Page 5

• The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive.

  Jesse Lee Kercheval

  Art, Mean, Alive

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• I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

  Maggie Q

  Athlete, Kids, Challenges

  "Maggie Q Interview NIKITA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2010.

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• A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

  Lois Greiman

  Father, Guy, License

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• The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace.

  Denise Levertov

  Lying, Air, Knowing

  Denise Levertov, “The Avowal”

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• It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.

  Burton Cummings

  Training, Runners

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• Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,
  And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,
  With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,
  To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping.

  Rupert Brooke

  War, Sleep, Eye

  'Peace' (1914)

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• Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
  To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down
  You had not seen take amber light alive.

  Allen Tate

  Mother, Swimming, Light

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• Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.

  Thomas Huxley

  War, Animal, Land

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Some of the events in the Olympics don't make sense to me. I don't understand the connection to any reality... Like in the Winter Olympics they have that biathlon that combines cross-country skiing with shooting a gun. How many alpine snipers are into this? Ski, shoot a gun... ski, bang, bang, bang... It's like combining swimming and strangling a guy. Why don't we have that? That makes absolutely as much sense to me. Just put people in the pool at the end of each lane for the swimmers.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Country, Winter

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• Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.

  Steve Allen

  Swimming, Thinking, Animal

  Steve Allen (1998). “Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind”

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• I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

  Glenn Close

  Ocean, Sea, Married

  "Glenn Close Talks Seafood, Swimming With Sharks And Saving The Planet". Interview with Katherine Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.

  Lloyd Blankfein

  Beach, Children, Matter

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• A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control of the water. A swimmer moves around willfully. An absorbed being has no will but the water's going. Any word or act is not really personal, but the way the water has of speaking or doing. As when you hear a voice coming out of a wall, and you know that it's not the wall talking, but someone inside, or perhaps someone outside echoing off the wall. Saints are like that. They've achieved the condition of a wall, or a door.

  Rumi

  Wall, Moving, Men

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• I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

  Grace Gummer

  Growing Up, Growing, Wanted

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

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• I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.

  Grace Gummer

  Team, Swim, Lacrosse

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

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• I also think swimmers are pretty fashion conscious and mos aren't always the best accessory to be rocking. Haha.

  James Magnussen

  Fashion, Thinking, Accessories

  "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.

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• The sport is definitely growing, and has become much more competitive. When I started, you were either a former swimmer or runner who took up triathlons. Now, you have a generation of triathletes coming up that started competing at a young age - these are the people that will change the game.

  Timothy O'Donnell

  Sports, Games, People

  "Triathlon Gear". Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com.

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• I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.

  Dustin Clare

  Sports, Swimming, Water

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• Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers.

  Ernst Hanfstaengl

  People, Breasts, Strokes

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• I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

  Scott Speedman

  Growing Up, Teenage, Distance

  Source: collider.com

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• But the main point is that he still had swimmers in his sacks.” “Excuse me?” “You know, luv. Sperm, if you want to be all technical about it. He still had living sperm in his juice." Cat and Bones

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Juice, Want

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• She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sarcastic, Powerful, Sea

  "A Writer's Notebook". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1946.

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• Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Swimming, Prize Money, Safety

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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

  Swimming, Gold, Legs

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• I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.

  Apolo Ohno

  Avid, Age, States

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