We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

I think I've gotten to the point in my life where I have to do everything that I'm scared of because you're not going to learn anything if you don't, so you just have to dive in the deep end and see if you can swim.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

Being bipolar is like not knowing how to swim. It might be embarrassing to tell people, and it might be hard to take you certain places. But they have arm floaties. And if you just take your arm floaties, you can go wherever the hell you want.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

I swim, go to the gym, and do a little dancing every day and a little singing.

All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.

Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim, and hearts gotta bleed.

They always say start at the bottom if you want to learn something. But suppose you want to learn to swim?

Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.