Paddling Quotations

all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.

I saw his eye look at me and then he just disappeared. And so I thought, 'Well, I'll just start paddling and he'll think that I'm moving and I'm alive and I'm not food and he'll probably leave me alone.

If people have even heard about synchronized swimming, usually it's from something like 'Austin Powers' or 'Saturday Night Live,' where they have some people paddling around in the water looking silly,

People go surfing before work and paddling afterward. My husband is from Wisconsin, and he goes to work in his Hawaiian shirt.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

In Hilo last year, we proved to race organizers and the international paddling community that it could be done,

You just can't grow the top line. I view Pfizer as a duck. They're floating and it looks easy, but they're paddling like crazy underneath.

You've got the place all to yourself. I was out paddling about two-three weeks ago. You don't hear anything but your blade hitting the water. You don't hear any traffic noise at all.

If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely.

Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.