
“Four-point-two kilometres is a long way for a frozen body to sink.”
p 1, describing his North Pole swim (2007)
Achieving The Impossible (2010)
TED Talk: Swimming the North Pole, September 2009 http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/lewis_pugh_swims_the_north_pole.html
Speaking & Features
“Four-point-two kilometres is a long way for a frozen body to sink.”
p 1, describing his North Pole swim (2007)
Achieving The Impossible (2010)
Source: Memoirs, May Week Was in June (1990), p. 19
"The Floating Cake" (a metaphor for "woman")
Spring Essence (2000)
“Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.”
See also: "Live or die, sink or swim" (George Peele, Edward I, c. 1584)
Source: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 133
quote from Glosses on the Theories of Others (1929); also in Style and Idea (1985), p. 313-314
1920s