Quotes About Swimmers

As I learn more about the Baghdad swimmers, I start noticing how the water is a privileged space and what an invitation to that space can mean for all kinds of tribes.

Some of the swimmers, like the security guards from Peru or Nepal, they were so poor—they lived a hard life and sent all of their money home," Jay says. "The fact that someone would give them a cap or a two-dollar pair of goggles meant a lot." He paid for the gear out of his own pocket. The

It was the sort of smile that lies on sandbanks waiting for incautious swimmers.

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.

Well, there are without doubt species of jellyfish around the world that are potentially lethal to human beings, some of which shut beaches for entire seasons. The box jellyfish of Australasia is officially the world's most venomous creature, and has killed swimmers in the past.

We were swimmers in a dusty yellow smell and sometimes overpower with the occasional stink of dung. If it was from a herbivore, the dung would have a grassy smell. If it was from a predator, it had a darker stink, sometimes so bad I could smell it in the helmet. Some of the piles of dung were as tall as Marley and moist though fortunately not steaming that would have meant we were way close to something dangerous.

You guys gotta get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.