I swam my brains out.


Mark Spitz

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I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.
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The world swam before my eyes.
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This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
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I mix them with my brains, sir.
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We swam well, and we're kind of where we wanted to be.
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I mark my hours by shadow; Mayest thou mark thine By sunshine.
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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.
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I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
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I rack my brains to come up with something, ... It's hard.
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All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.
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All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.
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I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.
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I was actually really sick. I threw up right after I swam.
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My name's Mark, I ride a scooter. I'm badass.
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I want my music to leave an indelible mark.
ROGER MILLER
I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there!
BARKHAD ABDI
The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn.
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If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
How about we call it lovingly fucking your brains out?
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Everyone swam incredibly well from start to finish. I'm very proud of my guys. They earned it.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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I'd walk right up to him and blow his brains out.
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.
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I feel it's important to mark my cross as soon as possible.
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All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.
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We smashed it. Everyone swam their part.
JADE EDMINSTONE
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.
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It's definitely nice to leave my mark.
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In life I will fall, I will backslide, but mark my word I will never give up.
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I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.
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MARK TWAIN
Be good and you will be lonesome.
MARK TWAIN
Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN
The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline ...
MARK RUSSELL
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
MARK TWAIN
Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
MARK TWAIN
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
MARK TWAIN
Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshel...
MARK FRAUENFELDER
Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk...
MARK BILLINGHAM
China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main ...
MARK CARWARDINE
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many...
MARK TWAIN
Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN
Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, out...
MARK FROST
I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin...
MARK TWAIN
The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ...
MARK EDWARDS
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
MARK RUTHERFORD
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would...
MARK TWAIN
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...
MARK TWAIN