Swimming Quotes - Page 29

• Given the huge size of Aegirocassis and its very alien appearance, I assume most people would probably be terrified if they'd encounter it while swimming. However, contrary to almost all other anomalocaridids which were active predators, our animal would have been a very peaceful guy.

  Benjamin Van Roy

  Animal, People, Guy

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• Your core is so important. Get your endurance up. Running and long-distance. Swimming is good as well. Important to have a good core, utilize the proper exercises to strengthen it. It goes out to the rest of your body and makes sure your body is right.

  Jozy Altidore

  Running, Distance, Exercise

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• When you're younger and dumber, as a guy, you do things because you think you have to, because that's how things are done. You wait the standard three days to call, you don't approach the beautiful girl at the bar because you automatically assume she's out of your league, you'd rather jump in a swimming pool filled with jellyfish than tell a woman that you have feelings for her, etc.

  Jason Mulgrew

  Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.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, Water, Surfing

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• I think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there is always that dithering moment. "Am I really going to do this? Won't it hurt?" And at some point you just have to flop in there and scream. Once you're in, keep going. You may have to crumple and toss, but we all do that. Courage! I think that is what's most required.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hurt, Thinking, Lakes

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Dec 31, 2014

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• Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

  George Polya

  Art, Practice, Piano

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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• It's great to have two cars and a swimming pool. But there are disappointments. After you've made some money and acquired some things, and after the initial excitement has passed, life goes on, just as bewildering as it always was, and the great problems of life and death once again come to the fore.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Disappointment, Two, Life And Death

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• Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other way. The wiser fish greets the two as he passes, saying, "Morning boys, how's the water?" The other two continue to swim in silence for a little while, until the first one turns to the other and asks, "What the hell is water?"

  David Foster Wallace

  Morning, Boys, Two

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• I like to do outdoorsy things: hikes, trails, running, swimming. I love the sun. I'm all about the warmth.

  Alicia Keys

  Running, Sun, Trails

  "Best Celebrity Body Transformations of 2008", www.glamour.com.

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• When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

  Adam Shankman

  Creativity, Sharks, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

  Jackie Evancho

  Summer, Ice, Childhood

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• I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

  David Mamet

  Ugly, Facts, Sinking

  David Mamet (1987). “House of Games: A Screenplay”, p.7, Grove Press

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• Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, Ok Jerry?

  Denis Leary

  Tuesday, Wife, Twenties

  Denis Leary (1992). “No Cure for Cancer”, Anchor

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• Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

  Billy Connolly

  Feelings, Let It Go, Trying

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• It's definitely not the typical path. But at the same time, I've been working at this since I was young. I've been swimming and running my entire life, and I've been given so much support the last few years in cycling, that I've been able to improve. And I'm still improving and still absorbing that support to help me get to be the best that I can be.

  Gwen Jorgensen

  Running, Cycling, Years

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• You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Real, Believe, Thinking

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• We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

  Michael Stipe

  Beach, Ocean, Feet

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• I love to watch movies, go swimming and just chill. Fun stuff relaxes me.

  Jessica Andrews

  Fun, Relax, Watches

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• I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Morning, Bed, Breakfast

  Tony Brown, Jimi Hendrix (2012). “Jimi Hendrix: 'Talking'”, p.130, Music Sales Group

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• Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Distance, Exercise

  "Diana Nyad chats about her Cuba to Key West swim". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2011.

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• Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers.

  Tim Ferriss

  Stuff I Like, Dancing, Three

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• There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

  Dick Cavett

  Yale, Class, Yards

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• The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.

  Brian Christian

  Writing, Fighting, Phones

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2010.

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• If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Animal, Dolphins

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• Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Ocean, Adventure

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.182, A&C Black

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