Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Don Johnson

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

Amanda Beard

Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to peoples standards.

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.

Duke Kahanamoku

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

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.

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.

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

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

James Patterson

Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff." "Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.

George A. Sheehan

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

Lyndon B. Johnson

President Can't Swim.

Ludivine Sagnier

In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

Ludivine Sagnier

When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for Swimming Pool was kind of a burden. Like, OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo, and I was having problems coping with that image.

Loretta Lynn

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

Henry James

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

Joan Didion

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Eric Shanteau

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

Heidi Klum

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

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

Henry Miller

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

James Garner

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

Jesse McCartney

I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter

James A. Garfield

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

George Mikes

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

Gail Simmons

I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

Francis Chan

If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.

Graham Joyce

Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.

Hugh Prather

The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.