Pool Quotes

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

  

  David Gerrold
  • Pool

• Skills-building opportunities should be extended to people outside of the mainstream talent pool. That might include at-risk youth, veterans returning to the workforce, or immigrants struggling to make a life for themselves in a foreign culture. The process for creating wealth must begin with creating opportunity for all.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • People
  • Life
  • Culture

• I guess I was a nice girl with a nice figure, because I just had to wear a bathing suit and dive in the pool. I was kind of candy, eye candy.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Girl
  • Nice
  • Candy

• I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Boy
  • Pool

• We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Together
  • Words

• My hair gets very light in the summer, but the problem with using all these products and going into the pool a lot is that my hair gets very yellow. I love purple shampoo!

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Light
  • Hair
  • Summer

• Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it's the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land in a paddling pool.

  

  Kevin McCloud
  • World
  • Pool

• When you have more people investing in VR games, whether it's us or Sony or someone else, that means a greater pool of VR developers out there who know how to make VR games.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• At school, I'd sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn't know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall was my Facebook. I'd hang out there to keep up with what was going on and to let people know where I could be reached if singing jobs came up.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Boys
  • Divorce
  • Fraud

• My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Unfortunate
  • Paparazzi
  • Backyards

• You can't afford for there to be gaps in your pool of knowledge when it comes to a character; otherwise, what ends up onscreen is generalized and unspecific.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Up
  • Character
  • Knowledge

• Parenthood can be very rewarding, but let's face it, so are margaritas at the adults-only pool.

  

  Jen Kirkman
  • Pool

• My sex life is like shooting pool with a rope!

  

  Jack Roy
  • Life
  • Sex
  • Shooting

• The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.

  

  Adam Richman
  • House
  • Night
  • Pool

• In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Home
  • Business
  • House

• I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

  

  Lil' Romeo
  • Pool

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

  

  Jim Caviezel
  • Pool

• When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us might become an actor was as far-fetched as being knighted by the queen of England.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Pool

• 'Hugo Chávez is going to make Venezuela a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent... he is an out-of-control dictator... a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly.' 6

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Control
  • Hurt
  • Enemy

• With marathon swimming, I think you have to use your head more than you do in pool events, which are more automatic. You can just go out and replicate your training pace in competition. With the marathon, though, you have to contend with nature, physical contact, and time.

  

  Poliana Okimoto
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Training

• I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • World
  • Feel
  • Emotion

• I am a keen medievalist and like going around museums and ruins and finding out about the people and local culture. I'm not one for sitting by a pool or lying on a beach. I also like to sketch while I'm on holiday, if I have time.

  

  Jools Holland
  • People
  • Time
  • Culture

• Clear and cool, clear and cool,By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool.

  

  Charles Kingsley
  • Cool
  • Pool

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