Swimming Quotes - Page 11

• Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."

  Bradley Whitford

  People, Looks, Actors

  "Bradley Whitford on Happyish, The West Wing, and his high heels on Transparent". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. June 16, 2015.

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• 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

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• Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pools or oceans because your thighs were jiggly or you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen.

  Anne Lamott

  Nice, Ocean, Kids

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• 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

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• 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.

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• I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes

  Nastassja Kinski

  Running, Reading, Sleep

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• 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

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• 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

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• I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

  Libby Trickett

  Sports, Clock Is Ticking, Ticking Time

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

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

  Melissa Etheridge

  Taught, Pool, Brad

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• 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

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• They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.

  Brock Yates

  Night, California, Denver

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• I look at him as some other person I need to beat.

  Ryan Lochte

  Needs, Looks, Beats

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• 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

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• We're all a little tired.

  Michael Phelps

  Tired, Littles

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• Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to peoples standards.

  Amanda Beard

  Practice, Water, Faces

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• I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Hate, Jumping, Water

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• Prosperity Gospel”. At his United Church Science of Living Institute in New York he would tell his congregation “close your eyes and see green. Money up to your armpits, a roomful of money and there you are, just tossing around in it like a swimming pool.

  Reverend Ike

  New York, Eye, Church

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• I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Thinking, People, Vision

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• Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.

  LL Cool J

  Romantic, Ocean, Kissing

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• I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

  Eric Shanteau

  Looking Forward, Pool, Concentrating

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• Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.

  Eric Shanteau

  Mean, Pool

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• 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

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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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• 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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