Pool Quotes - Page 28

• I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

  Shimon Peres

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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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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• Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.

  David Hockney

  Strong, Swimming, Men

  David Hockney (1978). “Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink”

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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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• Nothing else is going to matter if we kill the earth and we kill the food and we destroy the gene pool and there aren't any people around to enjoy the earth.

  Rosalie Bertell

  People, Earth, Matter

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• The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

  Cindy Gallop

  World, Action, Good Intentions

  "Yes, we plan: how altruism and advertising could change the world" by Eliot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. March 3, 2009.

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• Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team .. and the basketball team .. and the softball team, the track team, the chess club and the pool boy!

  Chris Jericho

  Basketball, Softball, Football

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• I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll make something. For example, one of the things I tried doing was getting a tiny loudspeaker and feeding the instruments off the tape through this tiny speaker and then through this huge long plastic tube - about 50 feet long - that they used to clean out the swimming pool in the place where I was staying. You get this really hollow, cavernous, weird sound, a very nice sound. We didn't use it finally, but nonetheless we well could have.

  Brian Eno

  Nice, Swimming, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You sleep with a dream of summer weather,
  wake to the thrum of rain—roped down by rain.
  Nothing out there but drop-heavy feathers of grass
  and rainy air. The plastic table on the terrace
  has shed three legs on its way to the garden fence.
  The mountains have had the sense to disappear.
  It's the Celtic temperament—wind, then torrents, then remorse.
  Glory rising like a curtain over distant water.
  Old stonehouse, having steered us through the dark,
  docks in a pool of shadow all its own.
  That widening crack in the gloom is like good luck.
  Luck, which neither you nor tomorrow can depend on.

  Anne Stevenson

  Summer, Dream, Rain

  Anne Stevenson, “Drench”

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• In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.

  Stephen Collins

  Mother, Running, Daughter

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• Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.

  Robert Graves

  War, Complaining, Survivor

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• If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Wise, Attitude, Believe

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• Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Nature, Children, Bending Down

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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• I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sleep, Swimming, Dna

  "Ozzy Osbourne genome sequenced" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I'm so proud of the time I put in the pool, so proud of the people I met along way, just to be asked to do this was exciting for me. I love it when I run into people who remember me from playing water polo as opposed to what I do now, which is an actor. It's rare that anyone remembers me but it's fun when I run into guys that played water polo who, we can speak in terms of water polo and what it was like and how we played, it's the great camaraderie. I was so excited to be asked to be part of this because I'm proud of it. I'm more proud of this probably than I am my professional career.

  Ted McGinley

  Running, Fun, Careers

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• Planet Bog - Pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases... but aside from that, it's not much like Earth.

  Bill Watterson

  Atmosphere, Toxic, Earth

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• In LA, it's the law that you must be engaged in writing a screenplay with your hairdresser, pool boy, personal trainer, life coach, dog walker, or yoga instructor.

  Mimi Pond

  Dog, Yoga, Writing

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• If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.

  Muhammad Asad

  Moving, Men, Water

  Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.57, The Book Foundation

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• I emerged from the black oil pools in the forgotten house of dreams in the wild backcountry of the heart. I am heir to the sun, child of Mother Earth and the Mayan galaxy. All the mountain cures and healing waters and winds and junipers run deep in my bloodstream.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Mother, Running, Dream

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• We love our Hohne Pool. We never have had a problem. My neighbor has one too. We both enjoy them very much, completely happy. We're both very pleased.

  Linda Jones

  Problem, Neighbor, Enjoy

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• Going to a bar or pool hall doesn’t mean you’re a drunk, just like sitting in a henhouse doesn’t make you a chicken. It’s the same in the opposite setting. Sitting in a church building doesn’t make you a follower of Christ.

  Jase Robertson

  Mean, Opposites, Drunk

  Jase Robertson (2014). “Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll be swimming in the pool with my kids and just think, "Can't forget that one." Then there's the more organized side of the brain, which is when I choose to work on them. I've learned through a bunch of mentors how to demarcate the different times for your writing process. I keep multiple projects going at once and there's a time when no matter what you're doing, you have to stop and write it because it's coming.

  Mark Duplass

  Writing, Kids, Swimming

  Source: www.salon.com

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• There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

  Chris Klein

  Jobs, Actors, Hollywood

  "Chris Klein, ‘American Reunion’ Star, On Being Left Out Of ‘American Wedding’ And Life After His ‘Mamma Mia’ Audition". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2012.

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• You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?

  Miley Cyrus

  Dolphins, If I Could

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