Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Walker

It's a fun, made-for-TV event. We need to get more swimming on TV.

David Eddings

Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet.

Jack Kerouac

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...

Ingrid Bergman

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

Friedrich Nietzsche

The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

Franz Kafka

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

Jack Dee

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

Clare Balding

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

Daniel Defoe

Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together.

David Mamet

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

The team is swimming really well right now.

Sharron Davies

The swimmers are swimming out of their socks.

George Herbert

In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]

Friedrich Nietzsche

What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

George Mikes

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

Hilary Swank

When I was a swimmer and I would lose a heat in something I was doing whether it backstroke or breaststroke, were two of my most strongest strokes, I would look at how whoever it was that won and beat me and think, "What did they do? What were... What were the qualities that they had that I can incorporate into my swimming to make me better?"

Sue Monk Kidd

I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

George A. Sheehan

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

Heather O'Rourke

I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.

Henry James

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

Steven Soderbergh

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Joseph Monninger

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is a practical discipline and in the 17th century in the West, we turned it onto a head trip. But it's like dancing, or swimming, or driving, which you can't learn by texts. You have to get into the car and learn how to manipulate the vehicle.

Mark Twain

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

Paula Radcliffe

I can swim I'm not bad, but not great.

Mark Spitz

Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

Marilyn French

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

Nick Hexum

The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

Jon Foreman

Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.

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

Tom Rachman

Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.

Sinead O'Connor

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.