Pool Quotes

• Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Family
  • Small
  • Walking

• A lot of British actors will look at America as such a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of working actors of color. There's such a small amount of work that is actually produced in the first place.

  

  Aml Ameen
  • Work
  • America
  • Opportunity

• I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hurt another player. I also never put any money into a bounty pool or helped to create a bounty pool intended to pay out money for injuring other players.

  

  Jonathan Vilma
  • Money
  • Player
  • Hurt

• The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Pressure
  • Walk
  • Camera

• I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day.

  

  Jim Caviezel
  • Pool

• I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Kind
  • Water
  • Shy

• 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 Black Sabbath
  • Sleep
  • Swimming
  • Medical

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Chance
  • Fish

• It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Family

• I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

  

  James Garner
  • Time
  • Pool

• I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Myself
  • Training
  • Swimming

• There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.

  

  Marshall Brickman
  • World
  • Pool

• Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Win
  • Victory

• Seagulls are a landfill nuisance because they fly away with food scraps and, as is their reputation, fight each other over them midflight, often losing them, and soon a lady has a half-eaten hamburger splashing into her backyard pool.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Food
  • Fly
  • Pool

• The JOBS Act will allow entrepreneurs to utilize 'crowdfunding,' which permits them to raise equity capital from a large pool of small investors.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Act
  • Equity

• The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

  Mark Spitz
  • Attitude
  • Pool

• I put myself through college playing pool.

  

  Walter Alston
  • College
  • Myself
  • Pool

• I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Retirement

• My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

  

  Chris Eigeman
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Pool

• Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.

  

  Annie Dillard
  • Up
  • She
  • Water

• A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Water
  • Pool

• I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to make sure everything's okay. My child is always on my mind.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Mind
  • Child
  • Look

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