Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

Ryan Lochte

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

Will Ferrell

I'm a really good swimmer.

Rick Riordan

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

Ogden Nash

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.

Ovid

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

Mark Gatiss

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

Julia Mancuso

I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.

Teju Cole

I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out.

Joe Evans

I think it's awful that because of a personal conflict, Mr. Spinks thinks it's necessary to do something that may have the effect of disrupting the whole festival and the whole county loses.

David Kennedy

It could be false, but an awful lot of it gels. Unless the guy's been much more surreptitious than these guys usually are, it's probable that law enforcement is on his trail.

Joseph J. Lhota

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

Dave Wannstedt

I think what you saw out there today is really no different than what you saw in the preseason. He breaks an awful lot of tackles and the guy has an awful lot of desire.

Tony Judt

I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Brian Coulton

There are no numbers, there are very few deadlines and not an awful lot of ownership of these plans, and so it is a disappointment.

Nic Robertson

There is an awful lot of what might be construed as bad news here. But it is the dominant information. It's the prevailing information.

Bill Kelly

There is an awful lot of people in this community that have relatives over there. Hamilton has always been a community that has tried to reach out. As to what we will do at council, that will be determined.

Winston Churchill

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

Ben Goldacre

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity,

Aristotle

The first principle of all action is leisure.

Steve Earle

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

Sutton Foster

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.

Mortimer Adler

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Peter Drucker

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

Mason Cooley

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I want leisure to read—an immense amount.