Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Asher

I swim more or less every day.

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.

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.

Bradley Whitford

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."

Artie Lange

I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate.

Bruce Lee

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Brock Yates

They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.

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.

David Mamet

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

Don Johnson

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

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.

Duke Kahanamoku

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Andrew Tan

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

Bill Cosby

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

Bob Hope

Today's ballroom dances like the swim, the frug, the chicken and the monkey are really nervous disorders set to music.

Bill Gross

When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time

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

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

James Patterson

Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff." "Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.

George A. Sheehan

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

President Can't Swim.