Top 100 Quotes About Swimming
#1. Did God get out of bed one morning and draw back the curtains (Reggie's imaginary God led a very domesticated life) and think, 'A drowning in a hotel swimming pool, I fancy. We haven't had that one in a while.
Kate Atkinson
#2. I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.
Jillian Lauren
#3. Nothing makes you fell more alive than swimming in a cold ocean."
I beg to differ, I though wistuflly, watching as he let go of my arm and dived into the waves. Nothing makes me feel more alive than when you touch me, Travis.
Kate McCarthy
#4. 'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.
Will Hobbs
#5. Life rose around my island like a sea, and presently I was swimming.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#6. Atlas kept swimming, and look at him now. He swam all the way to the fucking Caribbean.
Colleen Hoover
#7. For a moment, his pupils flickered blue, like there were tiny bathypelagic fish swimming in the deep trenches of his eyeballs.
James S.A. Corey
#8. The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.
Ginger Rogers
#9. As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all the time to the ocean, so I grew up doing open-water swimming in the Atlantic.
Alice Dreger
#10. Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get into a river and breed with wild fish, they can damage the wild fish's prospects of surviving to reproduce.
Charles Clover
#11. Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.
Aaron Peirsol
#12. I didn't know how to respond to that. There was something disturbing about being responsible for partially decayed girls going swimming.
Brenna Yovanoff
#13. Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'
Eric Shanteau
#14. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?
David Foster Wallace
#15. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
George Carlin
#16. Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.
Eric Shanteau
#17. I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
Raymond Bonner
#18. Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff."
"Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.
James Patterson
#19. Los Angeles and Sydney are very similar, but I definitely enjoy more fresh seafood when I'm back in Australia, as there is so much great, fresh produce here. I also like going swimming at the beach while I'm home, too.
Phoebe Tonkin
#21. Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.
Michael Phelps
#22. Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#23. A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him up for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.
W.B.Yeats
#24. I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
Esther Williams
#25. I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.
Jo Brand
#26. I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.
Sue Monk Kidd
#27. The line, Lasko. Do you know anyone in San Francisco? Are you just gonna get off the train and take a streetcar to the swimming pool?" "I might. I could." "You have to have a plan, Lasko." "No, I don't. Not after this. I don't have to have a plan in the world.
Armistead Maupin
#28. We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous.
Andy Richter
#29. This is fucking Washington! Who the hell has a below ground swimming pool? It rained 256 days of the year, for Pete's sake! On the off chance I found the blasted owners of it, I was going to put a bullet in their heads right then.
Eloise J. Knapp
#30. Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.
Stan Musial
#31. We are all hurting and missing people. Everyone is scared, so you can't talk about your worries because worries are everywhere. When everyone you know is on the verge of drowning, you don't stop to tell the person next to you that you don't like swimming.
You just don't.
Veronica Rossi
#32. I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.
Adam Young Owl
#33. All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
Chuck Palahniuk
#34. A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach, play outside sports. Being active outside. Going swimming, hanging by the pool, having a couple drinks, having a couple of your close buddies around, and just having a blast.
Rob Gronkowski
#35. I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.
Sam Hamill
#36. CALM is the bottom of my sea: who would guess that it hides droll monsters!
Unmoved is my depth: but it sparkles with swimming enigmas and laughters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. Your parents didn't particularly care if you wanted to carpool with someone else to swimming lessons; it was convenient for you and Amanda Hammels to travel together, even if you never talked to each other in school, so, by god, that was the way it was going to be.
Susan Perabo
#38. Paige? Why does the house smell like a swimming pool?" Laura yells from the kitchen. "I opened the windows. It shouldn't be too bad," I call back. She pokes her head in. "It's pretty bad." "But it's clean! Isn't it a lovely feeling to have a clean house?
Bria Starr
#39. A dream to one day design terrifically odd-shaped swimming pools for a California clientele.
Samantha Hunt
#40. The world swarms with people, each one drowning, but each swimming a different stroke to the far shore.
Ray Bradbury
#41. I was headfirst into the deep ocean before I learned how to control my dinghy in the swimming pool.
Jane S. Fancher
#42. Swimming, Freud favors the breaststroke, to keep his beard dry.
Peter D. Kramer
#43. In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.
Wolfgang Puck
#44. My swimming cap was really sprouting leaks these days. The thing is, you could patch over the holes, but it would never be the same. Like my love life.
Helen Salter
#46. I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
Jimmy Carter
#47. The swimming stinks here because there are no waves even little waves. What good is it without any ways and you never get scared or turned all over
J.D. Salinger
#48. She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.
Elizabeth Wein
#49. I have an image of
Turtle
right on the forehead.
She seems to go through the lobes of my brain. Sort of
like swimming.
Sandra Harner
#50. A dozen swimming events have already been completed in the Olympic competition. I wonder where they got the name 'Speedo.' It doesn't sound like a bathing suit, it sounds like a breakfast cereal for meth addicts.
Craig Ferguson
#51. Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.
Ian Thorpe
#52. Man was made to swim. Swimming is a natural sport, performed in harmony with nature.
Dan Stephenson
#53. A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.
Melody Carlson
#54. He stepped outside and looked up at the stars swimming in schools through the wind-driven clouds.
John Steinbeck
#55. When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.
Sinead O'Connor
#56. You're
swimming so hard in this ocean.
Don't you know
if you float,
it will always hold you up?
Terra Elan McVoy
#57. Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.
Tim Rice
#58. Shelby trailed off when she spotted the goldfish swimming in circles inside the Waterford. "Well, he's come up in the world," she said with a jerky laugh. "I don't think he appreciates it.
Nora Roberts
#59. Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of interest in subject of image at moment of writing, and write outwards swimming in sea of language to peripheral release and exhaustion.
Jack Kerouac
#60. 2387. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? (My sentiments exactly!)
Olav Laudy
#61. Are you all right? No broken bones, no hidden concussions? No fish swimming around in your lungs?"
I smiled at him tiredly. "There might be a minnow or two, but I'm sure I'll cough them up before tomorrow," I said, and he chuckled.
Julie Kagawa
#62. I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
Aaron Johnson
#63. When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
Gary Shteyngart
#64. With high hope and optimism, start swimming with time.
Debasish Mridha
#65. England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
Katherine Mansfield
#66. In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.
Ludivine Sagnier
#67. You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
G.K. Chesterton
#68. I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy,
Natalie Coughlin
#69. The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.
J.G. Ballard
#70. At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'
Courteney Cox
#71. The summers before that are a blur of baby oil and Sun-In and hating our bodies (I got big breasts; Tibby got no breasts) at the Rockwood public swimming pool.
Ann Brashares
#72. I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do
Summer Sanders
#73. Dia wrinkled her nose. "Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out."
"I don't need to be straightened out," Carmine said. "Why drown in love when you can have so much fun swimming in lust?
J.M. Darhower
#74. Some people find the golden ring swimming in their cereal in the morning, slip it on their finger and go skipping through life. And others drop it in the sand at the beach & spend the rest of their life digging to get it back.
Raye Morgan
#75. I feel like I've been swimming in the open ocean and now I'm exhausted and floating.
Lindy Zart
#76. I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.
David Walliams
#77. I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
Ann Brashares
#78. In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.
Brie Larson
#79. 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
#80. Mi sei mancato molto, he said, his eyes swimming with tears suddenly.
I missed you too, I told him.
How do you always know what I'm saying?
I speak Dreo.
Mary Calmes
#82. I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.
Bharati Mukherjee
#83. Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#84. My family is number one in my life. I'll blow off writing or just about anything to make sure I take my son to preschool or watch him at his swimming lesson.
Henry Cho
#85. Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am firm believer that you should keep swimming as long as you are having fun, but I can say that it becomes much more fun as you get older and learn more about the sport, life, and especially more about yourself
Scott Goldblatt
#86. The man swimming against the stream knows the strenth of it.
Woodrow Wilson
#87. The two men's gazes lock and I am suddenly swimming in a pool of testosterone, in need of a life raft.
Lisa Renee Jones
#88. Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.
Mark Twain
#89. My most vivid memories of those times weren't the actual nuts and bolts, but just pleasant times sitting with Jack [Kirby] in his studio, going over the pages and looking out the window at my kids playing in his swimming pool .
Mike Royer
#90. Take others with you, then," I say.
"Jagen isn't your best friend, either."
"No, but I am," Toraf says, swimming up
to us.
Anna Banks
#91. My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.
Jo Brand
#92. Things take care of themselves as long as you trust and don't try to control too much. Things will happen. Things tend to occur. Why resist what's inevitable? That's like swimming against the current, salmon notwithstanding. Go with the flow, you know? Glide with the glow, man. It's easier.
Tony Vigorito
#93. I need to cry some more. I'll drown if I don't...Sometimes you're swimming in unwept tears and you'll go under if you store them up inside.
Nina George
#94. I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
Shimon Peres
#96. I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water - fishermen, boatmen - and by a way of life that is dominated by water.
Berlie Doherty
#97. You oughtn't to go in swimming when you're alone," Freddy said. "You might have drowned." "I suppose I might have, at that," said the cow. "But it's such fun when I think I'm going to float, and then I just sink.
Walter R. Brooks
#98. The human body is not designed for swimming in minus 1.7 degree centigrade water.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#99. When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.
Patti Davis
#100. 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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