Ederle Quotes

#1. Billy Ederle's leaning in the doorway, drinking a Nozzy.

Stephen King

#2. Knowing a thing and experiencing it are always very much different things.

Tressa Green

#3. Oh, I eat whatever I want whenever I want it.

Gertrude Ederle

#4. I was happiest between the waves.

Gertrude Ederle

#5. God has been good to me.

Gertrude Ederle

#6. People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.

Gertrude Ederle

#7. You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem.

Angelo Dundee

#8. When somebody tells me I cannot do something, that's when I do it,

Gertrude Ederle

#9. What we believe, that's what we seek, it's the filter we view our lives through.

Kamal Ravikant

#10. To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

Gertrude Ederle

#11. Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me ... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

Gus Van Sant

#12. Don't be stupid and awkward," the dolphin says. "You want to walk together or not?"
"You are a stupid piece of shit. Go away from me."
The dolphin goes into the center of a circular clothing rack and quietly cries.

Tao Lin

#13. I just want to get on the court.

Carmelo Anthony

#14. He will never understand what happened that day between a young man and a young woman. There was a magic: and the name of it was love.

Philippa Gregory

#15. I am not a person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.

Gertrude Ederle

#16. I just knew if it could be done, it had to be done, and I did it

Gertrude Ederle

#17. Of course one can't eat in a civilized fashion while touring in theatres. But I still manage to get my three meals a day. I find that is sufficient for training.

Gertrude Ederle

#18. Don't weep for me; don't write any sob stories.

Gertrude Ederle

#19. The doctors told me my hearing would get worse if I continued swimming, but I loved the water so much, I just couldn't stop.

Gertrude Ederle

#20. When we're in the water, we're not in this world.

Gertrude Ederle

#21. I'd rather report to four million people as the elected Sheriff than some governor or president, so I like reporting to the people.

Joe Arpaio

#22. I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.

Wynton Marsalis

#23. I honestly can't think of any drug that has more of a stigma than antipsychotics. Truthfully

Jenny Lawson

#24. Slowly I came to know that the depth of our heartbreaks determines the depth of our faith. God gives us everything to conquer the big and the little hurts of life.

Gertrude Ederle