Quotes About Good Swimmers

#1. A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

Lois Greiman

#2. Child, you've been trying to drown your sorrows for some time now. And the problem with that plan is, you can't drown sorrows. They're good swimmers. They're gonna float back up to the top and be bobbing right where you left them last night.

Terri Lee

#3. Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war ... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.

Thomas Huxley

#4. Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it.

Greg Iles

#5. The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive.

Jesse Lee Kercheval

#6. Good swimmers at length are drowned.

George Herbert

#7. You don't know what it's like trying to eat enough to live on and at the same time avoid fats and carbohydrates.

Muriel Spark

#8. The giant will succumbed to a power more stern.

Edgar Allan Poe

#9. I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

Taylor Swift

#10. The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

E. M. Forster

#11. By forbidding Jews to destroy their hair, the Bible warns them away from seeking the siren song of eternal youth. By encouraging Jews to grow beards, it reminds them that they will not be young forever, that they must prepare the ground for those who come after, just as their fathers did for them.

Meir Soloveichik

#12. Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment.

Laozi

#13. Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

Ruth Reichl

#14. We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.

James E. Faust

#15. Did he use tongue? Did he growl? Was he shirtless? Did he motorboat you? Did you touch his abs? Did you lick his sharp jaw? Is he the size of a horse? Did you giddy up? Did you find his Nemo? Did you Grace his Frankie? Did you Justin his Timberlake?

Brittainy C. Cherry

#16. I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

Michael Palin

#17. Is the human creature as perfect in function as it might be?' 'Meaningless,' replied Cabal, 'with no definition as to what that function might conceivably be. We are good communicators, passable runners, middling swimmers, and poor at flying.

Jonathan L. Howard