Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Rice

Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

Steven Soderbergh

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Tim Ferriss

Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers...

Sam Ewing

Nothing in the world can replace the modern swimsuit, and it practically has.

Tamora Pierce

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

Steve Allen

Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

Shaggy

I'm like a surfer right now. I'm just surfing the wave. Except that I can't swim, so I'm on the board trying to hold on tight.

Sue Monk Kidd

I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

T. Harv Eker

If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.

Rainbow Rowell

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

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

The team is swimming really well right now.

Sharron Davies

The swimmers are swimming out of their socks.

Ryan Lochte

I look at him as some other person I need to beat.

Ryan Lochte

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

Ryan Lochte

With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.

Ryan Lochte

You'd be amazed at what I can do. Did you know I can swim?

Ryan Lochte

I tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, 'I can do this.' Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.

Ryan Lochte

I love swimming because racing.

Rose Macaulay

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

Ronda Rousey

After I did the swimsuit issuе, I knew that I wanted to do it again.

Tyler Perry

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

Travis Barker

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.

Rick Riordan

Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.

Rick Riordan

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

Ovid

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

Ovid

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

Patti Stanger

To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.

Mary Oliver

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

Mary Daly

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

Pope Francis

Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy.

Rita Mae Brown

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.