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Swimming Quotes (page 12)

You could feel the war getting ready in the sky that night. The way the clouds moved aside and came back, and the way the stars looked, a million of the swimming between the clouds, like the enemy disks, and the feeling that the sky might fall upon the city and turn it to chalk dust, and the moon go up in red fire; that was how the night felt. Ray Bradbury
Joseph Campbell quote: "The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic..."
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Joseph Campbell
Henry Miller quote: "We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned,..."
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown. Henry Miller
I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again. Stephenie Meyer
Doug Coupland quote: "-a feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like..."
-a feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo. Doug Coupland
Dean Koontz quote: "Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in..."
Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details. Dean Koontz
Newspapers will run a headline: 'Shark kills human.' You never see a headline from the other perspective: 'Man swims in shark-infested water, forgets he's shark food. Gary Larson
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the... Nikos Kazantzakis
Frank Herbert quote: "Survival is the ability to swim in strange water."
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water. Frank Herbert
A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down. Forgot in cruel happiness. That even lovers drown. William Butler Yeats
The young man walks by himself, fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough (faces slide out of sight, talk trails into tattered scraps, footsteps tap fainter in alleys); he must catch the last subway, the streetcar, the bus, run up the gangplanks of all the steamboats, register at all the hotels, work in the cities, answer the wantads, learn the trades, take up the jobs, live in all the boardinghouses, sleep in all the beds. One bed is not enough, one job is not enough, one life is not... John Dos Passos
Every wave is a watersprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water. Emile Zola
Black-and-white chickens stagger around Colonial Dunsboros, chickens with their heads flattened. Here are chickens with no wings or only one leg. There are chickens with no legs, swimming with just their ragged wings through the barnyard mud. Blind chickens without eyes. Without beaks. Born that way. Defective. Born with their little chicken brains already scrambled. There's an invisible line between science and sadism, but here it's made visible. Chuck Palahniuk
There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink. Truman Capote
My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about it is that one day it will capsize. Here we are, two good old boats that have been faithful neighbors, and above all your hand has done its best to keep me from "capsizing"! Let us then continue our voyage—each for the other's sake, for a long time yet, a long time! We should miss each other so much! Tolerably calm seas and good winds and above all sun—what I wish for myself, I wish for... Friedrich Nietzsche

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