Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Young

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

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.

Oscar Wilde

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

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.

Mark Twain

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

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.

George Mikes

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

Robert Higgs

If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely.

Theophilus London

I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

Tom Rachman

Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.

Sinead O'Connor

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

Simon Sinek

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

Simon Hoggart

A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.

St. Jerome

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

Richard P. Feynman

We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

Voltaire

I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

William Butler Yeats

A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.

Vladimir Putin

I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.

Winston Churchill

I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

Woody Harrelson

I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.

Woodrow Wilson

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

William Saroyan

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.

Will Ferrell

I'm a really good swimmer.

Sarah Addison Allen

He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.

Zac Efron

It's hard to film underwater. It really is tricky. You don't have goggles, so you can't see anything. You don't know where you're swimming to. Everything's blurry.

W. Somerset Maugham

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.