Swimming Quotes · Page 27

Move with them, be active with them - whether it's swimming or scooting or bicycling or playing soccer. Engage your child.

— David Kirsch

Sometimes, as I'm following a story thread to its ultimate conclusion, I find that I start swimming in deep water and need…

— Robin Furth

I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me.…

— Philippe Petit

I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic…

— Tera Van Beilen

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a…

— Cedric Hardwicke

I grew up in Colorado going snowboarding and horseback riding, hiking, mountain biking, climbing trees, being barefoot, swimming in the pond. I…

— Taylor Hill

If you don't have to worry about money or how you'll travel to a swim meet, that's so nice to not have…

— Caeleb Dressel

So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're…

— Tim Vine

I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes…

— Henry Miller

Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there…

— Benjamin De Casseres

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had…

— Debbie Meyer

The worst part about not playing is when you think that you are ready to do it. You try to get more…

— Fernando Torres

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard…

— Franz Kafka

You look beautiful in this dress." "And yet you're trying to take it off." "You know that look that Jessica gets when…

— Michele Bardsley

“We could not swim, but now we are swimming— We have to swim. It is not fair. It is never fair. We…

— Alberto Ríos

There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place.…

— Luke Scott

My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up…

— Jo Brand

I don't chase the perfect figure. I'd rather focus on staying and eating healthy. A combination of running, swimming, yoga and circuit…

— Shriya Saran

When I was in the U.S. for 'Swimming Pool,' people had asked me, 'So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?'…

— Ludivine Sagnier

Don't forget that you are you, you are not your friends , you are you just remember that. Just for fun just…

— Amy Blackstone

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

— David Mamet

I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.

— Chris Eubank Jr

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions…

— Bruno Tonioli

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float…

— Stevie Smith

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

— Charles Saatchi

I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

— Diana Nyad

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how…

— Summer Sanders

Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around…

— Marisha Pessl

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the…

— Arnold Schoenberg

“I was here, & now, but I was also swimming in the past, living these same motions we'd made so many times before.”

— Beth Harbison

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement…

— Robert Collier

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.

— Stephanie Rice

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool…

— Jerry Saltz

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

— Summer Sanders

There's something about it to me, the feeling of the water, and feeling, I don't know, equal, and like everyone else. Which…

— Jessica Long

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and…

— Robert Baden-Powell

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we…

— Charlize Theron

I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about…

— David Fincher

But now that I'm approaching my mid-forties and have a child, I realise more than ever that I need to look after…

— Kris Marshall