Swimming Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.

  Les Claypool

  Life, Fun, Tonight

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• Just getting in the pool for seven straight hours is unbearable to me.... It's grueling. There's nothing physically pleasurable about it. If you're doing a hard workout, you're throwing up in the gutter. At night you cling to your pillow and just hope that your body revives before you have to go back and do it again.

  Diana Nyad

  Workout, Hard Work, Night

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• Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

  Dale Carnegie

  Practice, Water, Speak

  Joseph Berg Esenwein, Dale Carnegie (1915). “The Art of Public Speaking”, Home Correspondence School

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• I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to fit in with a group. Really, I was swimming. I was lost, treading water, trying to find my way. I wanted to play football. It didn't work out. I didn't really know what I wanted until I found acting in a theater department, and then everything just fell into place, and I had a passion about something. Then, I started living my life.

  John Goodman

  Football, Passion, College

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter

  Jesse McCartney

  Peanut Butter, Pool, Peanuts

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• The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Class, Firsts, Opinion

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• When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

  Louis J. Mordell

  Men, Boards, Pool

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• Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Animal, Agriculture, America

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• Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.

  Carol Browner

  Fishing, Rivers, Numbers

  "EPA says U.S. economy depends on clean water". www.cnn.com. June 9, 2000.

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