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  • I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

    Bird   Lizards   Swimmer  
  • If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

  • Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.

    Mother   Swimming   Light  
  • You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

    FaceBook post by Michael Phelps from Jan 19, 2012
  • Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

    Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”
  • A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control of the water. A swimmer moves around willfully. An absorbed being has no will but the water's going. Any word or act is not really personal, but the way the water has of speaking or doing. As when you hear a voice coming out of a wall, and you know that it's not the wall talking, but someone inside, or perhaps someone outside echoing off the wall. Saints are like that. They've achieved the condition of a wall, or a door.

    Wall   Moving   Men  
  • You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

  • As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.

    Moving   Grief   Dark  
    Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.288, Faber & Faber
  • Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water.

    "Achieving The Impossible". Book by Lewis Gordon Pugh, 2010.
  • Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping.

    War   Sleep   Eye  
    'Peace' (1914)
  • A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

    Father   Guy   Swimmer  
  • The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

    Sports   Space   Champion  
  • Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever.

    Beach   Husband   Eye  
    Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor
  • The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

    God   Mean   Years  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.307, Bantam Classics
  • ...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.

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

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

    Sports   Player   Two  
  • He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.

    Ocean   Fall   Eye  
    Alice Hoffman (2008). “The Third Angel”, p.242, Random House
  • I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

    Ocean   Sea   Married  
    "Glenn Close Talks Seafood, Swimming With Sharks And Saving The Planet". Interview with Katherine Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.
  • To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

    Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.162, Pan Macmillan
  • ...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

    Educational   Heart   Men  
    Chris Crutcher (2002). “Whale Talk”, Laurel Leaf
  • I was a swimmer growing up, which meant being in the pool at 5 a.m. You get used to it. You get up at 4:15 a.m.; my parents, who were amazing, they were up at 4:15 a.m. or earlier to drop me off at the pool and then go to work. I eventually stopped doing that, but the pattern remained. I like getting up really early. It feels like my time of day.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I also think swimmers are pretty fashion conscious and mos aren't always the best accessory to be rocking. Haha.

    "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.
  • From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

    Age   Usual   World  
    Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)
  • Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.

    War   Animal   Land  
    Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.18, Cambridge University Press
  • All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

    Ocean   Men   Swimmer  
  • Some people are swimmers and they're born to swim. They're like fish in the water. I will definitely say it's someplace that I feel at home.

    Home   People   Water  
    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

    Simplicity   Swim   Might  
  • I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

    Source: collider.com
  • There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

    Boys   Rivers   Peaches  
    William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.114, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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