Swim famous quotes

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
-- Adam Gopnik

#Swim #Firsts #Language

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
-- Alan Rickman

#Swim #Desire #Want

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
-- Albert Einstein

#Thinking #Silence #Swim

Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Music #Hymns #Swim

You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.
-- Alex Garland

#Simple #Thinking #Swim

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
-- Alexander Pope

#Life #Sight #Swim

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
-- Alfred Adler

#Mistake #Swim #Way

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
-- Alfred Adler

#Mistake #Persistence #Swim

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.
-- Amanda Beard

#Swim #Want #Enjoy

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
-- Andrew Schneider

#Water #Choices #Swim

I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.
-- Anna Quindlen

#Education #College #Swim

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
-- Antonia Fraser

#Exercise #Zest #Swim

I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4.
-- Audrina Patridge

#Swim

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
-- Ayn Rand

#Men #Swim #Liberty

Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.
-- B.J. Penn

#Mma #Bird #Swim

When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.
-- Barney Frank

#Grateful #Funny Graduation #Swim

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.
-- Barry Sheene

#Stress #Waiting #Swim

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
-- Benjamin Cardozo

#Running #Long #Swim

When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.
-- Benjamin Spock

#Heart #Years #Swim

And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.
-- Bennett Madison

#Ocean #Swim

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.
-- Berti Vogts

#Soccer #Water #Swim

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions,
-- Bethany Hamilton

#Passion #What Matters #Swim

I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!
-- Bettie Page

#House #Bird #Swim

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
-- Bono

#Dream #Swim #Sorrow

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
-- Boris Johnson

#Hands #People #Swim

I could walk and swim at 10 months old.
-- Brandon Cruz

#Swim #Months #Walks

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.
-- Bruce Lee

#Water #Swim #Want

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.
-- Bruce Nauman

#Running #Swim #Lap

I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
-- Cara Buono

#Teacher #Yoga #Swim

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Swim #Tides #Annoying

I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.
-- Carly Rae Jepsen

#Swim #Body #Helping

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.
-- Carson Kressley

#Jumping #Swim #Challenges

God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Adversity #Swim #Depth

If it doesn't swim, run, or fly, or isn't green and grow in the ground, don't eat it.
-- Charles Poliquin

#Running #Swim #Green

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.'
-- Charles Stross

#Thinking #Interesting #Swim

I don't swim! That's like athletic.
-- Chloe Sevigny

#Athletic #Swim

How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.
-- Clifford Truesdell

#Years #Swim #Trying

She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.
-- Clive Barker

#Sea #Swim

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.
-- Cynthia Lewis

#Rocks #Assessment #Swim

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
-- Damian Lewis

#Growing Up #Swim #Height

In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.
-- Daniel H. Pink

#Leadership #Organization #Swim

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin
-- Daniel Pinkwater

#Believe #Parent #Swim

Never worry about what anyone else is doing...Just swim your own race.
-- Dara Torres

#Race #Worry #Swim

I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.
-- Dawn Fraser

#Swim #Mind #Stronger

Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.
-- Deb Caletti

#Book #Ocean #Swim

I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.
-- Deb Caletti

#Swim #Sometimes

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.
-- Drake

#Humble #Water #Swim

When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.
-- Dustin Clare

#Summer #Water #Swim

Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water in order to learn how to swim.
-- Edouard Manet

#Order #Water #Swim

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.
-- Edouard Manet

#Knowing #Water #Swim

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Technology #Thinking #Swim

If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.
-- Edward Hoagland

#Sports #Rivers #Swim

I've always believed that if you cannot do it, then you should not do it.Only when it comes to the point where you've literally dug yourself into a hole, where it's sink or swim, is that viable to me.
-- El-P

#Swim #Holes #Should

Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny jokes to each other. When they reach your brain,you hear what they're saying and that boosts your health and happiness. "Knock Knock... Who's There?.. Little endorphin... Little endorphin who?... Little Endorphin Annie." And then the endorphins laugh and then you laugh. See? Its Science.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Blood #Laughing #Swim

Running is bad for your knees, and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim.
-- Emma Stone

#Running #Swim #Knees

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.
-- Eric Butterworth

#Opportunity #Doors #Swim

I think you have to be weird to swim breaststroke.
-- Eric Shanteau

#Thinking #Swim

I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.
-- Eric Shanteau

#Dad #Missing #Swim

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers
-- Esther Williams

#Swim #Beverly Hills #Pool

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
-- Esther Williams

#Jobs #Order #Swim

Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.
-- Fatema Mernissi

#Stars #Water #Swim

Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once, but the thought of producing them several times according to the modern synthetic theory makes my head swim
-- Frank B. Salisbury

#Eye #Squids #Swim

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
-- Frank Herbert

#Water #Swim #Survival

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
-- Frida Kahlo

#Swim #Sorrow #Drank

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
-- Georg Simmel

#Hands #Personality #Swim

We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.
-- George Pope Morris

#Ocean #Swim #Depth

People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.
-- Gertrude Ederle

#People #Swim #Said

Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.
-- Gloria E. Anzaldúa

#Integrity #Justice #Swim

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
-- Gordon Ramsay

#Swim #Fishes #Kicks

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks

#Men #Order #Swim

The best medicine that a person can have is the knowledge and experience that he can swim through every tide and change of the time. If you have the mental competency to deal with every situation that arises, then you are very happy, very healthy and a very well-balanced person.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#Spiritual #Medicine #Swim

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.
-- Heath Ledger

#Scary #Swim #Trying

The best way to learn to swim is to dive.
-- Henri Jules Louis Marie Rendu

#Science #Swim #Way

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
-- Ian Thorpe

#Swim

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
-- Ian Thorpe

#Swim #Easy #Broke

I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.
-- Irena Sendler

#Water #Swim #Taught

I loved Ian in the now, the way he looked at me, how he made my stomach swim, how he held my hair when I was puking my guts up after eating a bad enchilada. That’s love.
-- J.A. Redmerski

#Hair #Swim #Way

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.
-- Jacques Barzun

#Summer #Winter #Swim

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.
-- James Cromwell

#Karma #Running #Swim

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
-- James Dean

#Water #Choices #Swim

Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.
-- James Scott

#Ideas #Swim #Streams

I swim more or less every day.
-- Jane Asher

#Swim

I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about, maybe 62 or something like that. And I think my healthy lifestyle has paid off. I suffer from osteoarthritis. That's genetic and there's nothing I can do about that, except to try and not jump up and down, but rather swim and bike, instead of jumping up and down.
-- Jane Fonda

#Thinking #Jumping #Swim

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
-- Jeannette Walls

#Children #Parent #Swim

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
-- Jeannette Walls

#Swim #Want #Figures

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
-- Jeffrey McDaniel

#Mermaid #Swim #Next

I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.
-- Jill Clayburgh

#Fitness #Swim #Miles

If you drink like a fish, don't drive: swim.
-- Joe E. Lewis

#Beer #Swim #Drink

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.
-- John Cheever

#Baseball #Play #Swim

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.
-- John Cleese

#Christmas #Father #Swim

I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath
-- John M. Geddes

#Apology #Water #Swim

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.
-- John McAfee

#Years #Swim #Enjoy

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
-- John Owen

#Elephants #Swim #Wade

Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
-- John Ray

#Wine #Water #Swim

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.
-- John Wilmot

#Philosophy #Book #Swim

I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.
-- Jonathan Winters

#Guy #Swim #Cameras

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
-- Joseph Campbell

#Water #Swim #Delight

The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings
-- Joseph Campbell

#Reading #Water #Swim

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

#Swim #Trout #Doe

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.
-- Joshua Jackson

#College #Swim #Brain