Pool Quotes - Page 7

• Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Art, Mean, Swimming

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• I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.

  Rod Stewart

  Work, Book, School

  Song: Maggie May, 1971

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• By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Successful, Blood

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• By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Past, Agony

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms”

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• Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Water, Liquid

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• If Ricky Schroder and Gary Coleman had a fight on
  television with pool cues, who would win?
  1) Ricky Schroder
  2) Gary Coleman
  3) The television viewing public

  David Letterman

  Fighting, Winning, Television

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• You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.

  Steve Jobs

  Knowledge, Mean, Science

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• I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.

  Walter Wangerin

  Mother, Stars, Book

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• Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

  John Major's speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, www.johnmajor.co.uk. April 22, 1993.

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• After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.

  Frances Mayes

  Thinking, Water, Way

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• As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!

  Hosea Ballou

  Heart, Water, Shining

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• Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Heart, Dry, Sometimes

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• Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.

  Seamus Heaney

  Ignorance, People, Different

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• We are delighted that these regulations are now law, and we commend the provincial government for helping put the issue on the front burner. These requirements will push more companies to have the conversations they should be having around board and executive committee diversity and, hopefully, their talent development. Businesses need to tap the full pool of smart, talented people to stay competitive and strengthen our country’s economic future.

  Alex Johnston

  Country, Smart, Issues

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• So we are headed for a time when there won't be anything but movies that are essentially made like video games, and actors will become obsolete, and then the big stars will be people who live in Brentwood or wherever it is, and they have a show called, I don't know, "Pool Parties of Brentwood" or something like that.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Stars, Party, Games

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Beautiful, People, Goldfish

  Jonathan Rosen (2010). “Eve's Apple: A Novel”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  God, Peace, Thinking

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• Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

  Winifred Holtby

  Fate, Men, Life And Death

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• When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

  Georg Trakl

  White, Water, Childhood

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• To succeed, you must first believe you can.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Believe, Billiards, Firsts

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• A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.

  Alan Cohen

  Stagnant

  Alan Cohen (2000). “Dare to Be Yourself”

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• No serious courtship or engagement or marriage is worth the name if we do not fully invest all that we have in it and in so doing trust ourselves totally to the one we love. You cannot succeed in love if you keep one foot out on the bank for safety's sake. The very nature of the endeavor requires that you hold on to each other as tightly as you can and jump in the pool together.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Love You, Names, Feet

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• The ship anchored in the harbor rots faster than the ship crossing the ocean; a still pool of water stagnates more rapidly than a running stream.

  Brownie Wise

  Running, Ocean, Water

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• The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Attitude, Swim

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• In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.

  Johannes Brahms

  Music, Rivers, Water

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