Swimming Quotes - Page 16

• Get down to your local swimming pool or your local swimming club, join up and see what it's like. I can guarantee that you're going to meet some great friends. Just being involved in water makes me happy and I'd like to see that transferred across to other people.

  Liam Tancock

  Guarantees That, People, Water

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I just came in this morning with one goal; to make it back tonight, so I'm very excited for the final.

  Michelle Williams

  Morning, Goal, Finals

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• I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Basketball, Sports, Football

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Throw your children in the surf and let them get used to it. They have to learn all about rips and tides and swimming between the flags and all that sort of stuff. I know that sounds ridiculous but it's true.

  Eric Bana

  Children, Rip, Sound

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. April 2011.

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• I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

  Voltaire

  Animal, Perfectly Good, Essence

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• We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ocean, Lakes, America

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “A Man Without a Country”, p.12, A&C Black

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• I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

  Summer Sanders

  Dad, Thinking, Air

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• The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

  Jim Moran

  Positive, Future, Law Of Attraction

  Jim Moran (1996). “Jim Moran, the Courtesy Man: Inside the Heart of One of the Most Successful Marketers in the Automobile Industry”

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• Into the day as by dream I swim to the music of nourished meaning.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Dream, Swim

  "The Creator" by Dejan Stojanovic, Tvoritelj, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "Spring Music," (p. 34), 2000.

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• Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.

  William Boyd

  Art, Book, Writing

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• Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

  Mark Twain

  People, Giving, Lessons

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• A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine arms are very strong and sturdy. Swimming hath helped to make them so, but only because thou hast had the will to do it. Fret not, my son. None of us is perfect. It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.

  Marguerite de Angeli

  Beautiful, Strong, Lying

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• Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate what other people do with their hands and feet to keep their heads above water, and, finally, you learn to swim by practicing swimming. Trying to solve problems, you have to observe and to imitate what other people do when solving problems, and, finally, you learn to do problems by doing them.

  George Polya

  Education, Math, Hands

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• I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Training, Weight, Breakfast

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• I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!

  Brittany Murphy

  Real, Character, Phones

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.

  Simon Hoggart

  Thinking, Law, Two

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• Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Land, Circles, Miracle

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

  Beth Orton

  Love Is, Sea, Water

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So let us sleep outside tonight, lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely ... One sweet world around a star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming, and here we will rest in peace.

  Dave Matthews

  Mother, Sweet, Rest In Peace

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• When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time

  Bill Gross

  Long, Naked, Tides

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• You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

  Kinky Friedman

  Hell, Mainstream, Accomplish

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• I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

  Theophilus London

  Snowboarding, Skiing

  "Theophilus London Doesn’t Have a Driver’s License, But He Drives Around Anyway". Interview with Bennett Marcus, www.vanityfair.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Sports, Littles, Active

  "Q&A: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto Talks Wii Fit" by Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.

  Graham Joyce

  Winning, Awards, Stuff

  "Graham Joyce wins fantasy award and makes sports book award longlist" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

  Xi Jinping

  Sports, Jobs, Exercise

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