#swimming

Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface. ↗

— Elisabeth Eaves

#swimming #wonder #beauty

I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#any #cannot #enjoyed #feel #get

Dreams do come true...never stop believing. ↗

— Josh Davis

#swimming #dreams

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 have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#get #go #i #often #swimming

When you truly sing, you sing yourself free. When you truly dance, you dance yourself free. When you walk in the mountains or swim in the sea, again, you set yourself free. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#free #freedom #sing #swimming #walk

At Dachau. We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children. It was even heated. But that was before we were transferred. Dachau was ever so much nicer than Auschwitz. But then, it was in the Reich. See my trophies there. The one in the middle, the big one. That was presented to me by the Reich Youth Leader himself, Baldur von Schirach. Let me show you my scrapbook. ↗

— William Styron

#banality #dachau #evil #hate #holocaust

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#against #knows #man #stream #strength

It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#city #coming #cooking #dog #down

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