Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Scott Speedman

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

Seth Godin

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

Ravi Zacharias

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

Tom Cruise

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Melissa Etheridge

I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

Henry A. Kissinger

In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

Henry George

No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

John Shelby Spong

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

John Oates

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

James Joyce

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

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.

Nicholson Baker

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

Nastassja Kinski

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.

Stevie Smith

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

Paula Radcliffe

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

Peter Carey

Swimming always cleans your soul

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.

Suzanne Collins

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

Suzanne Collins

You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.

Stephanie Rice

And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and so I know that you know when the time comes and the pressure's on and I have to swim well, I'm sort of able to pull it out and sort of get the best out of myself.

Stan Musial

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

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.

Natalie Coughlin

I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.

Suzy Kassem

Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

Tony Parsons

I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.

Thomas Woods

Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise.