Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher McDougall

We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

Martha Beck

I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything.

Hale Irwin

You always see on the highlights the home run. You might see the diving catch. You don't see the spectacular stuff, the stuff that really makes the game work. That's what we're missing.

Carlos Silva

I hate to see losses like that. I want to see the team play like the one we had last year, that was always playing hard and diving for balls.

Stephanie Bell

He is still young and hasn't started diving yet. But, he will.

Brandon Stockton

He gives that little extra effort. Some things people won't do like diving on the floor or diving for a loose ball. Those are the little extra things that some people don't do. That separates them.

Loren Smith

We faced all the Big Ten schools and they really showed themselves and represented Eastern Michigan well. I think they opened people's eyes up to what Eastern Michigan diving is all about.

Laurie Graham

The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.

Ed Nelson

When I'm out there people say I'm not a scorer. I still have it in me. But we have a whole group of people that can score. I've got to do the things that sort of make us a championship team, diving for loose balls, using my size under the basket. That's what I have to do.

Beeban Kidron

I've lost count of the plane tickets I've had in my pocket for people's weddings and other celebrations which I've had to tear up because I was making a film. How many things like that can you miss and still be in people's lives?

Cecil Beaton

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ...

Cecelia Ahern

are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love ?

Cecelia Ahern

what you don't know, you don't miss

Arsene Wenger

It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?

Mary Warren

That was really our vacation, and I miss it.

Jim Adams

We have a mission to accomplish. Their first obligation is to their employer.

Tom Izzo

We just didn't score. It's not the offense. It was just (that) we're missing some shots.

Paul Eenhoorn

I still miss music and singing. One day, I'm going to sing with a big band.

Zhu Zhu

In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

Steve Alford

Pool workouts are great, but it's not running up and down the hardwood 94 feet.

Tom Penders

He spends more time in the pool than on the court.

Carl Jung

Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.

Glenn Williams

We'll be a pretty competitive club. But when you're in a pool with the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, it's going to be tough.

Alex O'Loughlin

I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.

Allen West

I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

Alan Cohen

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool....

Rick Anderson

Look at that, just like a pool table.

Dean Price

When the Australians say they are not swimming well, that's when you must worry.

David Sedaris

I see you that have a little swimming mouse

Cheryl Hines

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.

Charles Saatchi

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

Eddie Marsan

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 recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?

Eddie Izzard

I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.

David Duchovny

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.

Bruno Tonioli

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.

Benjamin E. Mays

Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.