1.
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
Ray Bradbury
2.
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
Trevor Dunn
3.
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.
Ryan Lochte
5.
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
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There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.
Charlie Munger
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I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be - thanks to evolution.
Emo Philips
8.
I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.
Amanda Beard
9.
People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.
Amanda Beard
10.
A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.
Lois Greiman
11.
Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.
Estella Warren
12.
I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.
Katharine McPhee
13.
Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers.
Ernst Hanfstaengl
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet.
Cat Deeley
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I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.
Apolo Ohno
21.
Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner
Suzanne Collins
22.
Ive been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.
Brooke Burns
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I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.
Grace Gummer
24.
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.
Teddy Sears
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It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.
Burton Cummings
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It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody's surface. (In the more dangerous cases, it created a lasting whirlpool in which the strongest swimmers could drown.)
Marisha Pessl