Quotes About Swimming Underwater

#1. Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

Walter Darby Bannard

#2. But it's like swimming underwater, you know? At first you feel as though you could go along forever, seeing everything from this new perspective, but eventually you have to come up for air.

Barry Eisler

#3. '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

#4. All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

Laura Moriarty

#6. We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Paulo Coelho

#7. If you look up every last detail on your subject, you'll never finish.

Andy Weir

#8. To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.

Bear Grylls

#9. So I must say it quickly;
Whoever is in your life,
those that harm you,
those that help you;
those whom you know
and those whom you do not know --
let them off the hook,
help them off the hook.
Recognize the hook.
You are listening to radio resistance.

Leonard Cohen

#10. One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#11. Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.

Frederick Lenz

#12. 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 movements.

Esther Williams

#13. Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

William Weld

#14. I can promise you, Potter, that there is nothing you could ever do that would excite me.

Tim O'Rourke

#15. It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.

Bill Willingham

#16. The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines.

Nancy Pearcey

#17. It's hard to film underwater. It really is tricky. You don't have goggles, so you can't see anything. You don't know where you're swimming to. Everything's blurry.

Zac Efron

#18. Cecelia turned her gaze away from the girls and looked at the shimmer blue of their kidney shaped swimming pool, with its powerful underwater light, the perfect symbol of suburban bliss, except for that strange intermit sound like a baby choking that was coming from the pool filter.

Liane Moriarty

#19. Leo leaned forward and met her soft lips. Their first underwater kiss created bubbles that floated lazily to the surface. Audrey ran her fingers through his coarse hair, and they lingered until his lungs were bursting.

Jennifer Lane

#20. I'd never actually talked to a deaf person before but I'd been swimming and gotten water stuck in my ears lots of times, felt that underwater silence as I shook my head and watched people's mouths moving without hearing the words, so I knew what it was like for her. I could empathize.

Paul Neilan

#21. The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.

Sharon Salzberg

#22. A person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.

W. Edwards Deming