Pool Quotes

• The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Good
  • Pool

• 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 quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Water

• When you're at a public pool or in your friend's backyard, knowing that your kids can get in and out of the water and protect themselves can make all the difference in the world. Something as simple as being able to flip over and get to the ladder can save a life. You can start your kids in lessons as early as you want - it's never too soon.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Life
  • World
  • Kids

• Social Security is an insurance policy. It's a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we're contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?

  

  Laurence D. Fink
  • Great
  • Insurance
  • Pool

• 'Everything I know about the Iranians I learned at the pool room,' Graham said. 'I met a lot of liars, and I know the Iranians are lying.'

  

  Lindsey Graham
  • Pool

• In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losersI used to watch 'em through the glass.Well I'd stand outside at closing timeJust to watch her walk on past.Unlike all the other ladies, she looked so young and sweet.As she made her way alone down that empty street.Down on Mainstreet.

  

  Bob Seger
  • She
  • Past
  • Alone

• These grants will help the economic redevelopment of this region by building the pool of skilled workers necessary to attract new industries.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Help
  • Workers
  • Grants

• A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Memories
  • Creativity
  • Pool

• Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Deep
  • Pool

• My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.

  

  Dylan McDermott
  • Good
  • Dad
  • Cool

• Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Home
  • Small
  • Tree

• I started surfing when I was working on 'The Hunger Games,' out on the north shore of Oahu, so about four years ago. I used to skateboard as a kid, kind of religiously, until I broke my leg riding in a pool when I was about 14 and I couldn't play football that fall.

  

  Jeffrey Wright
  • Fall
  • Football
  • Surfing

• The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

  

  John Bruton
  • Pool

• Schools are really, really important. It gives you access to every kid in the country. It gives you a massive pool of people to see who might be talented at different sports. It allows kids to try sports. Kids can be inspired all they want, but if they can't go out and try a sport, then it's no good.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kids

• Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don’t worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Hurt

• What we do have in London is a fantastic pool of talent coming through the colleges. We are the fashion world's incubator.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Talent

• My kids, they're like nine or ten years old right now so you give 'em responsibilities just to keep them up on things. It ain't just all about getting on the skateboard or putting your Heelys on, and swimming in the pool all the time. You gotta do stuff like wash dishes, take the trash out, feed the dog.

  

  Big Boi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

  

  Christopher Reeve
  • Ocean
  • Pool

• A syndicate is a group that has gotten together to pool their money so they can cover more contingencies. If I come to track with, say, $200, and I join a syndicate of 20 people, each of whom can bet $200, we can spread our bets, and that gives us a better chance of winning.

  

  David Milch
  • People
  • Money
  • Together

• When I was in the U.S. for 'Swimming Pool,' people had asked me, 'So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?' And I said, 'No, I'm French! I am living in France. I am not going to be American.'

  

  Ludivine Sagnier
  • People
  • American
  • Swimming

• Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Why
  • Kind

• Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.

  

  Mark Zupan
  • House
  • Pool

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