Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Cosby

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

That was an outstanding swim for Nicholas, especially under those conditions.

Andrew Tan

I swim every other day. That's my exercise.

Charles Darwin

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

Cameron Crowe

I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

Carol Browner

Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

Brian May

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

Brandon Cruz

I could walk and swim at 10 months old.

Barbara Kingsolver

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

Barbara Sher

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

Adam Gopnik

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

Cyril Connolly

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

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.

When the Australians say they are not swimming well, that's when you must worry.

Alexander Dale Oen

In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

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.

Don Johnson

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

Dale Carnegie

Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

Duke Kahanamoku

I am only happy when I am swimming like a fish.

David Mamet

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

Dawn Fraser

I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.

David Levithan

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

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.

Ann Brashares

I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without 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.

Amanda Beard

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

Amanda Beard

The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

Amanda Beard

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.