Pool Quotes - Page 10

• The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

  Lee Friedlander

  Wall, Mirrors, Cameras

  Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”

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• The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.

  Merlin Olsen

  Basketball, Wall, Cutting

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• The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Running, Memorable, Rivers

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• Do you remember a little phenom called step aerobics? If you do, then you know how crazy it was to take two ninety-minute classes in a row. It’s incredible that I didn’t die from a blunt injury to the back of my head from slipping on my own pool of sweat.

  Kathy Griffin

  Crazy, Class, Sweat

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• For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

  Joshua Jackson

  College, Swim, Brain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

  Krysten Ritter

  Dog, Writing, Years

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• There is a small, but important, difference between peeing in the pool, and peeing into the pool.

  Demetri Martin

  Differences, Important

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• Ive been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.

  Brooke Burns

  Thinking, Black, Swimmer

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• My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.

  Dylan McDermott

  Dad, Sharks, Priorities

  "In Search Of Dylan McDermott". www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

  Edward Abbey

  Dip, May, Poor

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think. One day they cut it down. They didn't do anything with it: the log just lay there. I never forgot that.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Cutting, Thinking, One Day

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• Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.

  Carl Jung

  Liverpool

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• A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

  Joan Didion

  Eye, Order, Water

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 06, 2011

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• The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Rain, Eye

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.209, Random House

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• I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me.

  Rebel Wilson

  Stress, Swimming, Night

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• Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative, as a brief for postmodernism. The advance, while opening new avenues of expression and liberating deep pools of talent, has not exploded human nature into little pieces. Instead, it has set the stage for a fuller exploration of the universal traits that unite humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Expression, Voice, Feminist

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• Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital punishment, slash benefits and put single mothers into hostels instead of giving them council flats. Finally, if we chucked out all the illegal immigrants and asylum seekers there would be enough jobs for everyone.

  Ken Bates

  Football, Mother, Jobs

  "Sneijder's Hannibal Lecter impression, AVB tells Cole to cut out the fags and Ken Bates' Daily Mail-esque rant". www.mirror.co.uk. August 21, 2011.

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• What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, if unconscious, cost/benefit calculations

  Richard Dawkins

  Cost, Benefits, Body

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• Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

  Robert Peel

  Fishing, Economics, Empty

  Robert Peel, W.T. Haly (1850). “The Opinions of Sir Robert Peel, Expressed in Parliament and in Public”, p.145

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• A good GI bill would increase the recruit pool.

  Barack Obama

  Gis, Bills, Increase

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• I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

  Xavier Cugat

  Inspirational, Swimming, Play

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• If I found Yoko Ono floating in my pool, I'd punish my dog.

  Joan Rivers

  Dog, Floating, Insult

  "Joan Rivers' Most Memorable Insults" by Hilary Lewis and Colin Stutz, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 04, 2014.

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• The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements....The conclusion is impossible to escape that the State and Treasury Departments are willing to pool the banking system of Europe and America, setting up a world financial power independent of and above the Government of the United States....The United States under present conditions will be transformed from the most active of manufacturing nations into a consuming and importing nation with a balance of trade against it.

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  Money, New York, Independent

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• The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world. These poems eddy and pool in unpredictable and often surprising ways, much as the mind moves in its twilight state between waking and sleep. The fluidity of their cadence and the luminosity of their imagery carry the reader to the wellspring of poetry itself, that deep delight of which Robert Penn Warren spoke, whose source is, in Soniat's words, 'beauty on its way to being mystery.'

  Kathryn Stripling Byer

  Girl, Moving, Twilight

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• If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?

  Peter Boettke

  Swimming, Gold, Legs

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