Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amanda Beard

The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

Amanda Beard

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

Dale Carnegie

Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

Andy Serkis

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

Don Johnson

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

Duke Kahanamoku

I am only happy when I am swimming like a fish.

Bill Gross

When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time

David Levithan

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

David Eddings

Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet.

Clare Balding

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

David Mamet

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

Alexander Dale Oen

In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

James Wan

When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

When the Australians say they are not swimming well, that's when you must worry.

Ingrid Bergman

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Henry Miller

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

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.

Hilary Swank

When I was a swimmer and I would lose a heat in something I was doing whether it backstroke or breaststroke, were two of my most strongest strokes, I would look at how whoever it was that won and beat me and think, "What did they do? What were... What were the qualities that they had that I can incorporate into my swimming to make me better?"

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.

Jack Dee

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

Jack Kerouac

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...

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

The team is swimming really well right now.

Sharron Davies

The swimmers are swimming out of their socks.

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.

Mindy Kaling

I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

Katherine Mansfield

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

Kirsty Coventry

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

Maria Menounos

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

Oliver Herford

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