Swim Quotes

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.

I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.

I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim.

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

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

As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.