Pool Quotes - Page 19

• In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Clothes, Rocks, Car

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy.

  Craig Clevenger

  Beautiful, Mean, Self

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”

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• No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown litde wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with those litde flowers planted by the wind.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Dream, Flower

  "Katherine Mansfield Notebooks".

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• There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

  Edward Abbey

  Eye, Men, Light

  "Desert Solitaire".

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• It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fall, Mermaid, Elevators

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Inward, Ledges

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.61, Library of America

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• Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Book, Thinking

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• If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.

  James M. Barrie

  Eye, Fire, Darkness

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.78, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

  Thornton Wilder

  Clarity, Consciousness, Reaching

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• Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Friday, Children, Sunday

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• I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

  Emily Dickinson

  Grief, Feet, Joy

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.115, Harvard University Press

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• But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.

  Dave Eggers

  Baby, Clothes, Swim

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.367, Pan Macmillan

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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 great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.

  Vera Wang

  Athlete, Years, Important

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• When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

  Teresa of Avila

  Evil, Water, Soul

  St. Teresa of Avila (2012). “Interior Castle”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

  David Gerrold

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Skills, Discipline

  "They’ve Taken Emotional Intelligence Too Far" by Daniel Goleman, ideas.time.com. November 01, 2011.

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• Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

  Zaha Hadid

  Beach, Perfect Days, Wake Up

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• Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Book, Arabia, Tactics

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)”, p.552, e-artnow

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• Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

  Michelle Obama

  Soccer, Play, Lap

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• I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

  Michael Phelps

  Years, Normal

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• I think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids who could be afraid of water to feel comfortable in the pool.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

  "Sports Biz" with Darren Rovell, www.cnbc.com. August 18, 2008.

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• Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

  Michael Phelps

  Mom, School, Golf

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• Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

  Jerry Saltz

  Summer, Art, Swimming

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• I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.

  Jill Scott

  Water, Hours, Floats

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