Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.”
Doctrine and Covenants, 127:2 (1 September 1842)
1840s
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David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
Lewis Pugh (1969) Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer
p 168
Achieving The Impossible (2010)
Context: I resolved to follow my dream. I wanted to push every boundary. I wanted to swim further than anyone else. I wanted to cross seas and round capes that no one had dreamed of swimming before. And I wanted to swim in waters that were so cold no one thought it was possible to survive in them. And though it promised to make me poor and would take away the security provided by a career in law, that didn’t worry me.
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Undated letter to his daughter "Scottie" (Frances Scott Fitzgerald).
Quoted, Letters
Variant: All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
“Swimming upon water teaches men how birds do upon the air.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)