Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Warkentin

You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.

Mark Bittman

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 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.

Miriam Makeba

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

Neil Young

If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

Katherine Mansfield

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

Kirsty Coventry

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

Oliver Herford

There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

Margaret Atwood

Once I was in Texas, where they had this thing called Ralph the Swimming Pig. You went into a theater and you were looking through a great big window at people dressed as mermaids swimming around with oxygen tanks. One of the mermaids had a bottle of milk, and a small Ralph the Swimming Pig dove in and swam over. Naturally, afterward, I said in the cafeteria, "What happens to the Ralphs when they get bigger? Would you serve Ralphs who have retired?" "Oh no! We would never do such a thing."

Kinky Friedman

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

Ken Livingstone

I swim three times a week.

Katie Hoff

I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.

Ian Thorpe

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

Ian Thorpe

I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.

Ian Thorpe

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

Ian Thorpe

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

Ian Thorpe

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

Ian Thorpe

There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

Janet Fitch

I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.

Esther Williams

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

Esther Williams

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

Esther Williams

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers

James Garner

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

Henry Miller

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

Henry Miller

Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

James A. Garfield

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

George Herbert

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

Jeannette Walls

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

Graham Joyce

Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.

Hugh Prather

The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.

Gail Simmons

I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

Francis Chan

If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.