Pool Quotes

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. (Edith Sitwell)
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is. View quote
Dennis Rodman
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. View quote
E. M. Forster
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. View quote
Sigmund Freud
How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought. View quote
Sylvia Plath
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. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
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.' View quote
Paul McCartney
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. View quote
George Burns
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. View quote
Esther Williams
I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool. (Maria Menounos)
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. View quote
Shirley Knight
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. View quote
Stephen Collins
If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool. View quote
Trisha Goddard
For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home. View quote
Jean Chrétien
If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society...So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
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. View quote
Colin Firth
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. View quote
Geoffrey Rush
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. View quote
Christopher Reeve
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
... this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth. (Jane Addams)
Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place. View quote
Neil Gaiman
I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result. View quote
Temple Grandin
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
📖 Pool Proverbs