Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lennon

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

Joseph Monninger

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is a practical discipline and in the 17th century in the West, we turned it onto a head trip. But it's like dancing, or swimming, or driving, which you can't learn by texts. You have to get into the car and learn how to manipulate the vehicle.

Karen Russell

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

Karen Russell

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

Leisel Jones

I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.

Laure Manaudou

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

Joseph Murray

I've never regretted a swim

Kanye West

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

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.

P. G. Wodehouse

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

Ovid

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

Mark Gatiss

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

Julia Mancuso

I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.

Neil Young

If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

Margaret Millar

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

Michael Crichton

Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.

Maria Menounos

I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.

Mark Warkentin

You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.

Mark Bittman

Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?

Miriam Makeba

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

Oliver Herford

There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

Margaret Atwood

Once I was in Texas, where they had this thing called Ralph the Swimming Pig. You went into a theater and you were looking through a great big window at people dressed as mermaids swimming around with oxygen tanks. One of the mermaids had a bottle of milk, and a small Ralph the Swimming Pig dove in and swam over. Naturally, afterward, I said in the cafeteria, "What happens to the Ralphs when they get bigger? Would you serve Ralphs who have retired?" "Oh no! We would never do such a thing."

Kinky Friedman

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

Ken Livingstone

I swim three times a week.

Katie Hoff

I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.

Mark Twain

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

Lily Cole

If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do.

Lea Thompson

I don't even know how to swim!

Lea Michele

I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming.

Lauren Oliver

Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under the water," Po said, "and everything is strange and underwater-sounding, and strange and underwater-looking, you don't miss the air do you? You don't miss the above-water sounds and the above-water look. It's just different." "True." Liesl was quiet for a moment. Then she added, "But I bet you'd miss it if you were drowning. I bet you'd really miss the air then.