Pool Quotes

• Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Life, Ocean

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

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• The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fall, Psychology, Mind

  Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations Leonard Louis Levinson

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• This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

  Dennis Rodman

  Motivational, Basketball, Swimming

  FaceBook post by Dennis Rodman from Jul 19, 2016

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• Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

  Robert Browning

  Rocks, Water, Joy

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Smile, Shadow

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• Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

  Liv Ullmann

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Swimming

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• No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Thinking, Blood

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.15, Random House

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• In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Swimming, Color, Cold

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, film.avclub.com. September 28, 2011.

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• Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Captivity, Beavers, Given

  Evelyn Waugh (1998). “The Complete Short Stories and Selected Drawings”, Everyman's Library

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• Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

  Paul McCartney

  Funny, Money, Writing

  "Paul McCartney: One for the Road". Interview with David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. February 08, 1990.

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• I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Crush, Girl, Dream

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned". www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

  Esther Williams

  Girl, Character, Swimming

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• I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Swimming, Tears, Unhappy

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

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• I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

  Colin Firth

  Cutting, Swimming, Thinking

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• Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls.

  Lucy Powell

  School, Swimming, Years

  "Manchester's sporting success led to Team GB's Olympic glory" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2008.

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• Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Inspiration, Humor, Glasses

  Los Angeles Magazine, Volume 44, No. 11 (p. 169), November 1999.

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• I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

  Cedric Hardwicke

  Sorry, Believe, Swimming

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• Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

  Camille Paglia

  Sexy, Clever, Funny Sex

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• Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast.
  In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

  Natalie Wood

  Stars, Home, Swimming

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• I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Ocean, Swimming

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• Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets

  Audrey Hepburn

  Dream, Swimming, People

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• I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

  Eric Shanteau

  Swimming, Looking Forward, Concentrating

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• A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.

  John Steinbeck

  Running, Book, Rivers

  John Steinbeck (1965). “Of mice and men”, Bantam

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• Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.

  Dick Francis

  Ideas, Swim, Mind

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