Sara Paretsky Quotes

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

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• I have a house on the lake, and I must say, sitting on the dock and taking long morning swims or naked swims under the stars, that just brings me back almost immediately.

  

  Christine Baranski
  • Long
  • House
  • Morning

• You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Car
  • Cliffs
  • Screenplays

• Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.

  

  B.J. Penn
  • Fly
  • Bird
  • Swim

• This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Sea
  • Temptation
  • Swim

• It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat. 'Tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the Moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt.

  

  John Wilkins
  • Kind
  • Mean
  • Moon

• Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Speak
  • Sea
  • Train

• I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Stop

• I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Girlfriend
  • Swim
  • Dive

• "I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies, tossing them into the cart. "And Twinkies." "It is... Except that it's a cookout thrown by my mother." "And?" "And my mother doesn't cook." He looked at me waiting. "At all. My mother doesn't cook at all." "She must cook sometimes." "Nope." "Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just KNOW."

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mother
  • Sometimes
  • Waiting

• We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Situation
  • Surprise
  • Swim

• If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Learn
  • Message
  • Swim

• One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Water
  • Swim
  • Reggae

• I can't swim. I can float. But nothing could prepare me for that, to be honest. I mean, cold is cold and this was quite extreme. I actually treasure that experience, because it was challenging enough for me to discover new strength in me. Especially the discipline and the ability to concentrate and focus so much on one thing that I can overcome some obstacles and boundaries.

  

  Alicja Bachleda-Curus
  • Mean
  • Focus
  • Discipline

• Never worry about what anyone else is doing...Just swim your own race.

  

  Dara Torres
  • Worry
  • Race
  • Swim

• I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Jump
  • Believed
  • Cliffs

• Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Life
  • Father
  • Past

• Even though I didn't know I was going to be a swim coach, I always acted like it. I was always coaching other swimmers and telling them what to do.

  

  Eddie Reese
  • Coach
  • Swim
  • Not Know

• Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • History
  • Air
  • Forget

• Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Air
  • Sweet
  • Sound

• You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Interesting
  • Songs
  • Touring

• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Clean
  • Tasks
  • Housework

• Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Swim
  • Cliffs