Best Swimming Lines
597 Swimming quotes by 451 unique authors
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Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate…
— George Polya
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You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.
— Mark Warkentin
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Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.
— Eric Shanteau
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I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.
— Eric Shanteau
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Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in…
— Benjamin De Casseres
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In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of…
— Thomas Cahill
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The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits…
— Alex Kapranos
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When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of…
— Arlene Croce
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If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a…
— Steven Levitt
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It's... it's such a weird thing. After Garden State, so many companies wanted to make my movies, and after The Last Kiss, I realized people…
— Zach Braff
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You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.
— Kinky Friedman
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I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.
— Theophilus London
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Swimming is one of the hardest sports.
— Stephanie Rice
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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
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If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for…
— Robert Higgs
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The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
— Romare Bearden
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
— Cameron van der Burgh
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This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning,…
— Shirley Knight
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Here's a good gag if you go swimming in a swamp and when you come out you're all covered with leeches. Just say, "Hey, has…
— Jack Handey
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I think a good product would be "Baby Duck Hat". It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you…
— Jack Handey
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With the Special Ops Warrior Foundation's help, we put 266 kids through college last year. And that's what keeps me going. I'll be honest, I…
— David Goggins
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I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.
— Esther Williams
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No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater…
— Esther Williams
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Fly fishing is not about catching the fish. It is about enjoying the water, the breeze, the fish swimming all around. If you catch one,…
— Clare Vanderpool
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Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the…
— Tom Rachman
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