We Can Swim Quotes

#1. Extraordinary, how single lives just fold into the whole mess, over and over again, all caught up in the greater swirl. Spinning round and round, and ever downward, it seems. Ever downward. Fools, all of us, to think we can swim clear of that current.

Steven Erikson

#2. Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

Jacques Barzun

#3. When a liar uses words to convince someone to believe them it's like trying to swim with weight wrapped around your legs. It won't work. Eventually you'll tire out and sink.

Rachel Van Dyken

#4. To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.

Patti Stanger

#5. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

Mark Twain

#6. It's adult swim time and I'm diving in here at the shallow end.

Suzanne Finnamore

#7. He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

Rita Mae Brown

#8. But we all live somewhere and must swim in the water around us. I can't help but deal with the realities of life as I experience them in the United States.

Kevin DeYoung

#9. I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy ... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.

Jonathan Winters

#10. I suddenly had a vision of my sperm swimming around and talking in Bruce Willis's voice like in Look Who's Talking. Come on! Swim faster! This little shit has no idea we escaped from the condom! Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!

Tara Sivec

#11. If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to live with the ocean. You learn how to float, to swim, to be a part of it, to be with it. That is the nature of the Pagan's relationship with nature.

Emma Restall Orr

#12. We just need to figure out how to navigate the rest of the world, and we'll either sink or swim. I'm a really good swimmer. The question is, how long can you hold your breath?

Melissa Foster

#13. What I love about Popsicle and the moments I can be with Camden is that their whole philosophy is family and these moments that it can create to just sit with my son, read a comic book or go outside on a hot day, take a swim and have a Popsicle treat with him.

Vanessa Lachey

#14. We are all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf or skydiving. What matters is when the red light comes on.
Jerry Seinfeld to Michael Richards in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

Jerry Seinfeld

#15. Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.

Richard Bach

#16. I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book.

Sam Riley

#17. Had a wee in the Amazon. Until Richard told me I should be careful because there are some tiny fish that can swim up from the water through my urine and into my knob! Is that how amazing the Amazon is? The fish in there would really rather live in my knob than the river.

Karl Pilkington

#18. I write and walk and swim and drink.

John Le Carre

#19. Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

Thomas Hood

#20. Changing things in education involves hard work, determination and an ability to swim against the tide.

Adele Devine

#21. Flying is something we cant do. We can't swim for years under water in the ocean either. but, we can always have a friend, and no one cannot.

Sydney Wilhelmy

#22. God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?

Walter Wangerin

#23. Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz band without instruments: Music just isn't going to happen.

John Kao

#24. We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

Charlize Theron

#25. Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well without ever giving a thought to the sulfur cycle or wetland functions. Only when the benefits nature provides are disrupted do we take notice.

Paul Hawken

#26. You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?"
"We have a very big bathtub.

Suzanne Collins

#27. Even a dead fish can float down a river ...
To truly live, we must have a direction toward which we swim.

R.v.m.

#28. Arista," the wizard said, "sharks don't eat seafood because they like it, but because chickens don't swim. We all do the best we can with the tools we have, but at some point you have to ask yourself where the tools came from.

Michael J. Sullivan

#29. That's when we lean on God and constantly seek his face and heart and thoughts, because there's no way we can ever swim in the deepest part of the ocean unless we know the one who holds the seas in the palm of his hand.

Louie Giglio

#30. In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds, bask in the sun, run through the trees and laze beside cool waters.

Tom Turner

#31. Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

Vicki Harrison

#32. War is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe.

Philip Pullman

#33. When sadness was the sea, you were the one that taught me to swim

Pleasefindthis

#34. I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

Jeff Kinney

#35. They don't tell you how to be on TV - they put the camera on you, and they turn it on, and you sink or swim.

Michael Strahan

#36. I'm pretty much in love with 'Adult Swim.'

T-Pain

#37. Can we swim?" Sky asks, resting her chin on my shoulder.
"Did you bring a suit?" Please say no, please say no ...
"Yeah."
Crap. "Great.

Jolene Perry

#38. What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I do that.

Jillian Medoff

#39. As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave ... walking the plank ... willingly ... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.

Morrissey

#40. I love figure skating, so I do that as often as I can. Other than that I just go to the gym or swim. I love swimming.

Jennette McCurdy

#41. We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

Adam Gopnik

#42. Pickpocket is a sink-or-swim profession, not something that can be taught in the comfort of your living room.

Martyn V. Halm

#43. happeinefs, what is it? lady, difterbed in her Bed, your thoughts of it?

Flann O'Brien

#44. The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#45. Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.

Aldous Huxley

#46. Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

Deb Caletti

#47. No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

Nick Cave

#48. The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.

Tim Cahill

#49. I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can't even swim.

Rickson Gracie

#50. We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.

Aaron Peirsol

#51. Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

Shimon Peres

#52. I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.

Meg Rosoff

#53. We don't want to swim against cosmic currents, do we?

Stefan Emunds

#54. This Is Your Time, This Is Your Dance. Live Every Moment, Leave Nothing To Chance. Swim In The Sea. Drink Of The Deep, Embrace The Mystery Of All You Could Be. What if Tomorrow? And What If Today? Faced With The Question, Oh What Would You Say?

Michael W. Smith

#55. By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.

Steve Erickson

#56. He knew that if Michelle entered into the walls of the Vatican, she'd corrupt every single clergyman within, causing them to forsake their vows in trade for a few moments with her. With one glance men would happily follow her to the bowels of hell and swim across the lake of fire to get to her.

Travis Luedke

#57. Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.

Ina May Gaskin

#58. Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.

Michael Phelps

#59. I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast

Leisel Jones

#60. It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad little men hiding in electrical sockets, waiting to be born of the human imagination.

Bud Macfarlane Jr.

#61. I said to my girlfriend, you shouldn't eat before you swim. She said, "why not"? I said, you look fat.

Jimmy Carr

#62. Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?
Why would you refuse to give
this joy to anyone?
Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom.

Rumi