Pool Quotes - Page 32

• I would love to be able to play anywhere, but to me the sweet spot is clubs and theaters, just because I feel like you lean in to tell a joke. You don't back up. Comedy lives in that area. I've played amphitheaters, big clubs, and pool halls, and the most fun rooms hold anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people. That intimacy is where comedy really lives.

  Michael Che

  Sweet, Fun, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear.

  Peter Elbow

  Running, Writing, Water

  Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.52, Oxford University Press

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• The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

  Washington Irving

  Age, Library, Buckets

  Washington Irving (2009). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.”, p.109, Modern Library

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• Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Billiards, Happier Days

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• I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag full of mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.

  James Frey

  Dirty, Mushrooms, Want Something

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.153, Rutgers University Press

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• Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pools or oceans because your thighs were jiggly or you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen.

  Anne Lamott

  Nice, Ocean, Kids

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• Marijuana has killed far fewer people than swimming pools; it’s the war against it that does all the violence.

  Lawrence Reed

  War, Swimming, Marijuana

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• Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or dragging your boat through trickling shallows from one pool to the long channel-twisted pool below, hanging up occasionally on shuddering bars of quicksand, making six or eight miles in a day's lazy work, but if you go to the river at all, you tend not to mind. You are not in a hurry there; you learned long since not to be.

  John Graves

  Summer, Autumn, Rivers

  John Graves (1960). “Goodbye to a river: a narrative”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• It's time to stop tiptoeing around the pool and jump into the deep end, head first. It's time to think big, want more and achieve it all!

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Thinking, Want, Firsts

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