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Letter "S" » swim
«There is a saying that life is a river and it will take you to where ever you want to go. But reality, if you fell into a river, would you think that? No. You would try to swim to shore.»
«People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.»
«The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.»
«The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.»
Author: John Cleese
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Actor)
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Keywords:
boat,
Christmas,
Christmas Day,
extraordinary,
How to swim,
miles,
my father,
offshore,
out in,
ritual,
sack,
sacked,
swim,
Take Me,
The Hard
«There?s a huge hole in the whole Flood drama, because anything that could float or swim got away scot-free, and it was the idea to wipe out everything, He didn?t say, ?I will kill everything, except the floating ones and the swimming ones, who will get out due to a loophole.?»
Author: Eddie Izzard
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Actor,
Comedian)
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Keywords:
drama,
dramas,
due to,
float,
floating,
flood,
hole,
huge,
Scot,
Scots,
scot free,
swim,
swimming,
wipe,
wiped out,
wipes,
wipe away,
wipe out,
wiping
«Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.»
«No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God; and can swim»
«The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Essayist,
Historian)
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Keywords:
all-embracing,
apparitions,
embracing,
exhalation,
exhalations,
illimitable,
resting,
rolling,
roll call,
rushing,
swift,
swim,
tide
«On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.»
«Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.»