Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brie Larson

I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

Bruce Lee

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Amanda Beard

Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to peoples standards.

Andy Serkis

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

Thomas Cahill

In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.

Michael Phelps

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

Mark Ruffalo

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

Jeannette Walls

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Bill Cosby

A pelican that is wet walks with a gated limp, but a dry fish swims alone.

Lyle Thomas

Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else?

Pat Riley

I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court.

Brandon Steiner

If you want more money, don't pay attention to the money. Pay attention to the thing that makes the money.

Brandon Sanderson

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

Aravind Adiga

Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free

Augustus

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Art Buchwald

I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Ayn Rand

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

Gavin Patterson

After years of hype, delays, skepticism and then disappointment, it is a welcome relief to say that WCDMA has finally come of age. Preliminary figures show that end-2005 there were 44.42 million WCDMA subscribers worldwide, an increase of 163.62% over the 16.85 million subs registered as of Dec. 31, 2004.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I like to keep my girlish figure

Bill Zollars

Given that third quarter was revised upward significantly, I am skeptical that growth was so low and I will wait until we have the final figures to judge.

Larry Wachtel

Suddenly these inflation figures have a psychological impact.

Isaiah Mustafa

If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it.

Tonya Harding

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

Brendan Wilders

The figures were broadly in line with our expectations.

John Wilson

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

Eric Lascelles

It's hard to imagine that individual month-to-month figures are going to have much bearing.