Swimming Pool Quotes - Page 3

• When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

  Louis J. Mordell

  Swimming, Men, Boards

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• It's great to have two cars and a swimming pool. But there are disappointments. After you've made some money and acquired some things, and after the initial excitement has passed, life goes on, just as bewildering as it always was, and the great problems of life and death once again come to the fore.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Disappointment, Swimming, Two

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• One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of the internet just perpetuating this myth that we're all just sitting around in these mansions like Steven Tyler, bopping around in our swimming pool. It's bullshit.

  DJ Shadow

  Rap, Swimming, Artist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.

  Sam Hamill

  Taken, Swimming, Thinking

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Swimming, Men

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• I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.

  Strom Thurmond

  Home, Army, Swimming

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• Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.

  Les Claypool

  Life, Fun, Swimming

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• I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

  Summer Sanders

  Dad, Swimming, Thinking

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• Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, Ok Jerry?

  Denis Leary

  Swimming, Tuesday, Wife

  Denis Leary (1992). “No Cure for Cancer”, Anchor

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• I was relaxing in my parents' swimming pool with my brother, Peter. I asked him how the engineering business was going, and he reciprocated: 'How's the ministry world going?' 'Okay,' I said, 'except that a couple of weeks ago I realized that I don't know why Jesus had to die.' Then Peter, without skipping a beat, without even a moment's hesitation, said, 'Well, neither did Jesus.'

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Couple, Swimming

  "More Ready Than You Realize: The Power of Everyday Conversations".

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• My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the best seat in the house, right behind the Dodger's dugout. That's the only advantage that I can see about being dead: You get the best seat in the house.

  Jennifer L. Holm

  Baseball, Angel, Swimming

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• I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.

  Arsene Wenger

  Country, Swimming, Years

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• You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Golf, Swimming, Games

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.507, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sunset, Swimming, People

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• If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture.

  Joe Teti

  Swimming, Guy, Survival

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• Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim

  Julius Malema

  Swimming, Zuma, Pool

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• The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up. Amelia: You're soaking wet. The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool. Amelia: You said you were in the library. The Doctor: So was the swimming pool.

  Steven Moffat

  Fall, Swimming, Doctors

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• Prosperity Gospel”. At his United Church Science of Living Institute in New York he would tell his congregation “close your eyes and see green. Money up to your armpits, a roomful of money and there you are, just tossing around in it like a swimming pool.

  Reverend Ike

  New York, Eye, Swimming

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• If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

  Steven Levitt

  Children, Swimming, Gun

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• This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

  Shirley Knight

  Dream, Morning, Swimming

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• The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place.

  Florence Welch

  Couple, Swimming, Age

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• The only way Congress can get one dollar to spend is to take that one dollar from Americans, borrow that one dollar from Americans, or inflate that one dollar from Americans. So, it's very much like the visual image of a swimming pool. A person notes there is a shallow end, so he takes the water out of the deep end and pours it in the shallow end, hoping to raise the height of the water in the pool - and you would call that person stupid.

  Walter E. Williams

  Stupid, Swimming, Water

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• In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Home, Swimming, Squares

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• I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

  Alice Hoffman

  Loyalty, Block, Real

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• Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Swimming

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