#swimming

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#boy #face #i #just #name

We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous. ↗

— Andy Richter

#been #dipping #go #i #i love

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#dive #how #into #life #like

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#basketball #because #good #good student #happy

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#artistic #basically #bent #coast #culture

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#always #between #comedy #course #falls

When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#applauded #decision #first #heartily #humour

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent. ↗

— Cedric Hardwicke

#created #felt #give #god #had

She loves swimming,” said Ellen, who I knew had been a competitive swimmer in college. Ellen looked in the rearview mirror at Kara. “Don’t you Kara?” asked Ellen. There was no response. “I didn’t start until I was three,” said Ellen. “She’s got a two year start on me. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#summer #swimming #love

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. ↗

— Jo Brand

#i #long-distance #lot #loved #moved