Pool Quotes - Page 18

• Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Simple, Pool Table, Way

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Kids, Winning, Victory

  GOLF Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. July 18, 2009.

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• I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?

  Utah Phillips

  Guarantees That, Want Something, White

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• The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize events into stories were more successful than hunters who weren't—and this success translated directly into reproductive success. In other words, hunters who were storytellers tended to be better represented in the gene pool than hunters who weren't, which (incidentally) accounts for the fact that storytelling isn't just found here and there among human cultures, it's found universally.

  Daniel Quinn

  Successful, Events, Here And There

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• The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Stars, Twilight

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.175, Faber & Faber

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• The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lying, Dark, Hands

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.125, Penguin

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• We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Kids, Phones, Library

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• The summer day is closed - the sun is set:
  Well they have done their office, those bright hours,
  The latest of whose train goes softly out
  In the red west. The green blade of the ground
  Has risen, and herds have cropped it; the young twig
  Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun;
  Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown
  And withered; seeds have fallen upon the soil,
  From bursting cells, and in their graves await
  Their resurrection. Insects from the pools
  Have filled the air awhile with humming wings,
  That now are still for ever; painted moths
  Have wandered the blue sky, and died again

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Flower, Garden

  William Cullen Bryant, “From: An Evening Revery”

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• What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

  Erma Bombeck

  Years, Bikinis, Doe

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• I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

  Pat Morita

  Retirement, Horse, Golf

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

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• Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

  James Joyce

  Moon, Land, Sky

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.200, Collector's Library

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• We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Home, College

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• The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened into a little trouty pool, then ran on through water meadows over graveled shallows into Fakenham [England], where it slowed and deepened, gathering strength for the long drifts across muddy flatlands to Norwich and the North Sea.

  Jonathan Raban

  Real, Sea, Rivers

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• Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves -- for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to be the most beautiful.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Beautiful, Knowing, Littles

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

  Alec Baldwin

  House, Dresses, Looks

  "Alec Baldwin Dresses as Jack Donaghy Every Night" by Josh Peskowitz, www.esquire.com. September 22, 2010.

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• I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Years, Legs, Empty

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.73, Penguin

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• I'm not in my element standing around in a bikini in front of strangers. I never stand up in a bikini, even at the swimming pool. I feel like a normal person when it comes to things like that. I'm like any other girl who doesn't want to show her bottom.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Girl, Swimming, Elements

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• In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Swimming, White, Water

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• I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Alive, Feels

  "Ram Dass, Spiritual Teacher, Talks Soul, Spirit And Accepting Change With Origin Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2013.

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• I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

  Melissa Etheridge

  Swimming, Taught, Brad

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• Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

  Frances Mayes

  Italian, Eyebrows, Georgia

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• When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.

  Jerry Robinson

  College, Agency, Doors

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• I'm kinda racist... I don't really like dark butts too much... It's rare that I do dark butts. Like really rare... It's like, no darker than me. No darker than me. I love the pool test.... If you can be like 'Yo, baby. I met you in the club. Let's go back to my house. Jump in the pool exactly like you are.'-And you don't come looking better wet than you were before you got in the pool then that's not a good look.

  Yung Berg

  Baby, Dark, House

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• When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.

  Summer Glau

  Exercise, Water, Ballet

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

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• At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it.

  Krista Allen

  Sex, Party, Guy

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