Pool Quotes - Page 17

• As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.

  Abbi Glines

  Silence, Doubt, Waterfalls

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 2: Just for Now; Sometimes It Lasts; Misbehaving”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes it was easier to swim with the current rather than fight against it. There was always a shallow pool somewhere ahead. Memories are like battles, and battles can go one way or the other. You can stand and fight, no matter what pains run from you wounds; or you can turn tail and run, knowing then that the enemy will follow and without mercy hunt you down. We had so many dreams as children. Where do they all go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?

  Helen Hollick

  Running, Dream, Children

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• I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

  Emile Hirsch

  Moving, Fall, Blue

  "Interview: The Stars Of Lords Of Dogtown". Interview With Fred Topel, www.ign.com. June 1, 2005.

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• The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.

  Mary Renault

  Real, Lying, Fall

  MARY RENAULT (1966). “THE MASK OF APOLLO”

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• I have so many children. Half of mine are the ones that just must climb the tree, must climb the mountain, must get dirty, must jump off, flip into the pool sideways because it's just who they are. So you try to give them as much guidance and prepare them but they are who they are.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Dirty, Giving

  "Angelina Jolie still digs stunt work, mom time". Interview with Dean Richards, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 25, 2010.

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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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• 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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• Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Water, Microscopes

  Agatha Christie (1976). “Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage”

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• The most powerful military in the world cannot invade, kill or capture a network or destroy every loose weapon on the planet. The best response to this network of terror is to build a network of our own -- a network of like-minded countries and organizations that pools resources, information, ideas, and power. Taking on the radical fundamentalists alone isn't necessary, it isn't smart, and it won't succeed.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Powerful, Military

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• Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high fees, will not necessarily give you your money back when you want it, and will generally not tell you what they do. They are supposed to make money all the time, and when they fail at this, their investors redeem and go to someone else who has recently been making money. Every three or four years they deliver a one-in-a-hundred year flood. They are generally run for rich people in Geneva, Switzerland, by rich people in Greenwich, Connecticut.

  Cliff Asness

  Running, Years, People

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• Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

  Nancy O'Dell

  Europe, Want, Bottom

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• My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by.

  Ryan Sypek

  Change, Beautiful, Ocean

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• There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

  Albert Shanker

  Education, Swimming, Use

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• Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.

  Heidi

  Volunteer, May, Stones

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• Thought tends to collect in pools.

  Wallace Stevens

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

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• I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

  Doug Ose

  Stupid, Smart, Mean

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• One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

  Winston Churchill

  Reflection, Orange, Keys

  Winston Churchill (2009). “Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

  Winston Churchill

  Sunshine, Swimming, Hands

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also the pool where some hardy souls go out in their flimsy wooden boats after the big ones. It is the pool of life, the cup of imagination, and she has an idea that different people see different versions of it, but with two things ever in common: it's always about a mile deep in the Fairy Forest, and it's always sad. Because imagination isn't the only thing this place is about.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Two, People

  Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the water. After a while I moved farther up the hill, where I could hear birds singing near and far in the silence of the trees. The presence of the trees was very strong...The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Strong, Spring, Light

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Men, Oil

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• When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  High Heels, Blood, Feet

  "It’s OK To Hate Wearing High Heels (Just Take It From These Famous Women)" By Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2014.

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• I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. 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. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain.

  Lee Friedlander

  Wall, Silly, Simple

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• I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

  Joan Didion

  Swimming, Swimming Pool, Wanted

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.41, Zola Books

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