Pool Quotes

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.
Sigmund Freud

Great, Mind, May

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
George Burns

Age, Sex, Trying

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Chuck Palahniuk

Love, Matter, Blood

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
Lance Armstrong

Put, Team, Group

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
Ingrid Bergman

Success, Down, Remember

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.'
Paul McCartney

Down, Said, Write

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

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.
Tom Hiddleston

Girl, Learned, Dream

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
Dennis Rodman

Life, Deep, Water

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.
E. M. Forster

Great, Men, Around

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

End, Ocean, Either

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
Sylvia Plath

Heart, Human, Thought

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
Quentin Tarantino

Religion, God, Movies

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
Paul McCartney

Writers, Resources, Unusual

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
Ovid

Fish, Expect, Hook

Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.
Michelle Obama

Great, Play, Won

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

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
Carter G. Woodson

Money, Social, Needs

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.
T. E. Lawrence

Books, Test, Taught

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'
Miley Cyrus

The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.
Dee Dee Myers

Family, Secret, Making

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.
Helena Bonham Carter

Famous, Bad, Four

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
Edith Sitwell

Unpopular, Electric, Catfish

I have to go... drop some kids in the pool.
Jessica Simpson

I think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids who could be afraid of water to feel comfortable in the pool.
Michael Phelps

Forward, Afraid, Kids

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
Natalie Wood

Home, Stars, Film

The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
Vera Wang

Great, Important, Since

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.
Colin Firth

Living, Reason, Intentions

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.
Michael Phelps

Mom, Happy, School

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.
Michael Phelps

Normal, Consider, Spent

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