Swim Quotes - page 2

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. (Russell Banks)
It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special. View quote
Sarah Chalke
I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder. View quote
Scott Speedman
If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one. View quote
Tea Leoni
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. View quote
Daniel Webster
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. View quote
Geoffrey Rush
Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh-they are all pathways to what I think God must be. View quote
Jennifer Beals
Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in. View quote
Henry Miller
Jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moonful of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt. View quote
Thom Yorke
Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection for their characters. Raunchy is OK. Cruel is not. (Roger Ebert)
When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life. View quote
P. L. Travers
I'd love to design my own swim collection for them (VS)...Heidi (Klum) does the lipsticks, I would love to one day do the bikinis. View quote
Marisa Miller
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?" View quote
David Foster Wallace
One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto [Jorge Luis] Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way. View quote
John Barth
Does a one-legged duck swim in circles? View quote
Rhodri Morgan
The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.' View quote
Charles Stross
I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake. View quote
Dylan Moran
Most of the time you don't even know they're there. Now, that's the scary thing. It's really strange and invading, but I'm still working it all out. I try to not let it bother me. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do it. I certainly don't want to feel that I have to change everything in my life that I do to cater to them. I just won't let it happen. View quote
Heath Ledger
(Windows work two ways, mirrors one way.) You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows. View quote
Jim Morrison
Deep water is what I am wont to swim in. (Joseph Smith)
Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore. View quote
Sarah Dessen
It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him. View quote
Matthew Henry
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water. View quote
Frank Herbert
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