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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Anything that's outdoorsy and fun, like hiking, biking, running, paddleboarding, swimming in the ocean... and then I'll mix in Pilates, yoga, spin, ballet.
I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.
Even something light, such as walking, jogging, cycling or swimming, and staying away from junk food is good enough to keep you healthy.
Sometimes, as I'm following a story thread to its ultimate conclusion, I find that I start swimming in deep water and need to run an idea by Steve [King].
I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.
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.
Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet.
Swimming a 50 m is like playing the pokies: you push a button, and you never know what is going come up; it may be a mixed bag.
I don't think I'm 'the guy' in the sport of swimming, but people want to label me as 'the guy.'
... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep 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.
Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.
We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.
I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
I love swimming, and when I'm choreographing something I'm in the studio dancing all day, every day.
There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.
I just learned how to scuba dive. I'd been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.
I play duplicate bridge and I play golf and I go swimming once in a while.
If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.
When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.
I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.
I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool.
As a family, we were far too busy making mud pies and going to swimming galas, and mum was always working.
In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.
Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.
At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'
I feel like I finally got a routine with massages, and yoga and swimming, and all these different things that I do. I think it has helped me not get hurt.
I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.
You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.
I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.
My paternal poppa, Alec, was a taxi driver and swimming coach. He taught all his grandchildren how to swim and loved all kinds of sport.
I'm fair-skinned, so beaches are a bit boring for me. I'm either smeared in lotion or under a shade. However, I do love the sea - diving, swimming and snorkelling.
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.
I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.
You have to be an anti-racist to not be racist. Because it's just a cultural tide that will pull you into it if you're not swimming against it.
Sometimes for me not throwing a tantrum is what running a marathon or swimming the English Channel must be like for others of a less-challenging emotional nature.
While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.
I love swimming, but I love knowing that kids see me as an inspiration.
Based on my experience, I would say that rather than taking lessons in how to become an entrepreneur, you should jump into the pool and start swimming.
When you come from your heart in the midst of your self and in your life, you’ll be like a salmon turning and going upstream. You’ll be going against the stream. You’ll be going against what your self is like. In that way, you are training your self, your conditioning and the streams of your self.
I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that.
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course to swim upstream instead of downstream), we find ourselves battered by powerful currents we had never even suspected - precisely because until that moment we were largely living at their command.
When you retire, you don't get fat and old. C'mon: it's like a shark. Sharks never stop swimming; that's when they die. You gotta keep moving.
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.
I had the freedom to be alone with myself, completely unlimited by my circumstances or my body while doing what I loved. I think that's why I took to swimming with such ease.
Exercise and fitness will always be part of my life but it does not have to be lifting huge weights; I like yoga, cycling, walking swimming, anything.
I can't imagine what I would be doing if I wasn't swimming. It is what I want to do now; it is what I want to do in the foreseeable future, and that is what I'm focusing on.
You can't beat sex outdoors, but there are not many places I haven't done it. Forests, barns, in swimming pool changing rooms, on top of hills, you name it.
'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.
I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters.
When I need to relax, I love to go to the movies or watch a good TV series. I also practice a lot of sport, mostly tennis and swimming.
I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.
The doctors told me my hearing would get worse if I continued swimming, but I loved the water so much, I just couldn't stop.
I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.
If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.
No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.
Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.
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