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?

Woodrow Wilson

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

Sarah Addison Allen

He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.

Sarah Dessen

I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

Zac Efron

It's hard to film underwater. It really is tricky. You don't have goggles, so you can't see anything. You don't know where you're swimming to. Everything's blurry.

Rick Riordan

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

Julia Mancuso

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

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.

Mark Twain

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

Maria Menounos

I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.

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?

Lea Michele

I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming.

Lauren Oliver

Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under the water," Po said, "and everything is strange and underwater-sounding, and strange and underwater-looking, you don't miss the air do you? You don't miss the above-water sounds and the above-water look. It's just different." "True." Liesl was quiet for a moment. Then she added, "But I bet you'd miss it if you were drowning. I bet you'd really miss the air then.

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.

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.

Mary Daly

It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Shimon Peres

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

Marc Levy

Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.

Natalie Coughlin

I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy,

Natalie Coughlin

Without goals, training has no direction.

Leisel Jones

I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.

Laure Manaudou

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

Lionel Trilling

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

Peter Carey

Swimming always cleans your soul

Rainbow Rowell

Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.

Theophilus London

I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

Karl Pilkington

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

Ovid

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

Joe Biden

I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.