Paddling Quotations

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.

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

Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it's the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land in a paddling pool.

A part of me is missing when I can't ski, but I've learned there's more to define me and make me happy, like stand-up paddling and Jet Skiing - things I'd never done before. Or being with people I love and just enjoying life.

The paddling is very good, especially for being so early in the season.

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.

John Henry and I just started paddling as fast as we could towards her,

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.

We've been looking to develop (inland) paddling trails, and this one just came together perfectly.

I've trained a lot harder. Right now, I think I'm paddling the best I ever have.

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

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,

A run like that can give you momentum going into halftime. Before that, it was like going up hill, or paddling as fast as you can and not getting much done.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

The bottom of the channel is a lot rougher than most, which slows the water down. We ended up with limitations on how much Rutherford (Power) would contribute and these are the types of things we had to live with. Some of the folks in paddling community don't know that we were forced to make some tough choices.

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.

The growth outlook for Microsoft is very muted. To a large extent it's unexciting. They've been paddling really hard to create new avenues of growth but they're limited by the personal computer side of their business.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred miles on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.

Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.

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.

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.

The secret of success is to be like a duck, Smooth and unruffled on top, But paddling furiously underneath.

What was he doing, the great god Pan, / Down in the reeds by the river? / Spreading ruin and scattering ban, / Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, / And breaking the golden lilies afloat / With the dragon-fly on the river.

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

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.