Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludivine Sagnier

In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

Ludivine Sagnier

When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for Swimming Pool was kind of a burden. Like, OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo, and I was having problems coping with that image.

Loretta Lynn

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

Frida Kahlo

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

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

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.

Joan Didion

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Eric Shanteau

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

Heidi Klum

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine

It's just tough. You're better off swimming right now, than trying to play football.

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 Garner

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

Jesse McCartney

I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter

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 Mikes

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

Jeannette Walls

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

George Herbert

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

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.

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.

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.

The team is swimming really well right now.

Sharron Davies

The swimmers are swimming out of their socks.

Aaron Peirsol

Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.

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.