“He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.” — Jennifer Lane Copy Share Image
The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
I can freestyle for a while, but I'm not an Olympic swimmer who can go two or three miles. — Rulon Gardner Copy Share Image
I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been. — Natalie du Toit Copy Share Image
“Good swimmers didn’t depend on swimming rings. They made use of their guts!” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about… — Kieren Perkins Copy Share Image
I'm not a very good swimmer, and every time I'm in the water, I'm constantly reminded of that because I feel like… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to… — Margaret Craven Copy Share Image
I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for… — Scott Speedman Copy Share Image
People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It would be simpler going to an Olympic Games knowing you had to nail one trick that you've done a hundred times,… — Caroline Buchanan Copy Share Image
If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool… — Peter Boettke Copy Share Image
The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a… — James Salter Copy Share Image
A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a… — Lois Greiman Copy Share Image
He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team. — Grace Gummer Copy Share Image
“A good swimmer is one who knows how to swim through the river of life without drowning.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day. — Burton Cummings Copy Share Image
