Swan Dive Quotes

#1. Sure all life's highways at some point must end,
so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive
when the pavement runs out ...
And hopefully leave behind artistically
that which may make other roads
an even better ride ...

Tom Althouse

#2. He was on the edge of a cliff. And he wasn't jumping, he was diving, a huge swan dive, like those famous cliff-top divers in some exotic place he'd seen on television once. Only they landed safely, bodies cutting into seawater like knife blades.

And his dive was a killing one.

B.D. Roca

#3. His leap was exact, mathematical. The initial arc - head tucked between taut arms that spread out gradually like wings - was as graceful as a swan dive.

Juan Filloy

#4. Swan dive down eleven stories high
Hold your breath until you see the light
You can sink to the bottom of the sea
Just don't go without me

The Civil Wars

#5. Where are you in your cycle? Oh, WHO CARES? Let's get you two BUMPING right away. We don't want another trimester to go by with a FLAT TUMMY. And not to put any pressure on you or anything, but it would be just BREEDY if you could deliver the goods by next March.

Megan McCafferty

#6. If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.

Jeff Garlin

#7. A book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

Virginia Woolf

#8. If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.

Florence Welch

#9. The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

Al Sharpton

#10. The first step toward understanding is of course argument.

Leonard Wibberley

#11. Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.

Richard Brautigan

#12. The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter.

Juliet Marillier

#13. If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.

Paco Underhill

#14. Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.

Howard Hughes

#15. Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!

Zig Ziglar

#16. Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Desmond Tutu

#17. The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

Gloria Steinem