Swimming Quotes - Page 23

• I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.

  James Hilton

  Dog, Night, Long Walks

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• Swimming is fun. It's a lot funner than golf.

  Michael Phelps

  Fun, Golf

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• Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

  Edward Rowland Sill

  Success, Academic Excellence, Classroom

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• If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.

  T. Harv Eker

  Eagles, Ducks, Want

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• I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t visit relatives, can’t get a job, can’t have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.

  Candy Darling

  Jobs, May, Prison

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• In looking for my mind, I discovered that it seems to be in many different places. Sometimes it is drinking a glass of water, remembering swimming in the summer, feeling the breeze. In this contemplation I observed that the self is more elusive than I thought.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Summer, Drinking, Glasses

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• Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

  Simon Sinek

  Risk, Safe, Pool

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2011

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• I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Work Out, Trying

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• I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'

  Deborah Levy

  Book, Home, Writing

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• I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

  Jamie Dornan

  Running, Used, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.

  David Walliams

  Sports, Running, Pain

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

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• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said: "You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognises you." I said: "What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?"

  Eddie Marsan

  Clothes, Wife, Scene

  "Eddie Marsan: 'There's no great mystery to acting'". Interview with Elzabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Dad, Reading, School

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• There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

  Albert Shanker

  Education, Use, Pay

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• I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

  Robert Wyatt

  Music, Thinking, Rocks

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• One sweet world Around this star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming And here we will rest in peace

  Dave Matthews

  Sweet, Rest In Peace, Stars

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• I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Reading, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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• Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.

  Margaret Mead

  Sports, Fishing, Skills

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• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  Jack Dee

  Feet, Bricks, Praying

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• Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Two, Auctions

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• In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

  Amanda Beard

  Baby, Grandma, Bizarre

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• The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

  Amanda Beard

  Community, Conservative, Clothings

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• I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

  Ian Botham

  Struggle, Thinking, Excited

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• Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?

  Mark Bittman

  Filth, Salmon, Natural

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• Competition is great for everyone. Sports can teach you so much at an early age, including camaraderie and sportsmanship. Competition aspect is something I've always been big on - I always wanted to compete in something. It was swimming for many years, then I moved on to basketball. I had to find a way to channel my competitive energy, so I'm lucky that basketball worked out for me.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Sports, Years

  Interview with Josh Staph, www.stack.com. January 1, 2007.

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