Pool Swimming Quotes

#1. The line, Lasko. Do you know anyone in San Francisco? Are you just gonna get off the train and take a streetcar to the swimming pool?" "I might. I could." "You have to have a plan, Lasko." "No, I don't. Not after this. I don't have to have a plan in the world.

Armistead Maupin

#2. When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

Gary Shteyngart

#3. The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.

J.G. Ballard

#4. The summers before that are a blur of baby oil and Sun-In and hating our bodies (I got big breasts; Tibby got no breasts) at the Rockwood public swimming pool.

Ann Brashares

#5. I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

Shimon Peres

#6. My most vivid memories of those times weren't the actual nuts and bolts, but just pleasant times sitting with Jack [Kirby] in his studio, going over the pages and looking out the window at my kids playing in his swimming pool .

Mike Royer

#7. The two men's gazes lock and I am suddenly swimming in a pool of testosterone, in need of a life raft.

Lisa Renee Jones

#8. I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.

Bharati Mukherjee

#9. In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.

Wolfgang Puck

#10. I was headfirst into the deep ocean before I learned how to control my dinghy in the swimming pool.

Jane S. Fancher

#11. Paige? Why does the house smell like a swimming pool?" Laura yells from the kitchen. "I opened the windows. It shouldn't be too bad," I call back. She pokes her head in. "It's pretty bad." "But it's clean! Isn't it a lovely feeling to have a clean house?

Bria Starr

#12. I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.

Sam Hamill

#13. This is fucking Washington! Who the hell has a below ground swimming pool? It rained 256 days of the year, for Pete's sake! On the off chance I found the blasted owners of it, I was going to put a bullet in their heads right then.

Eloise J. Knapp

#14. 2387. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? (My sentiments exactly!)

Olav Laudy

#15. When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping?

Anthony Liccione

#16. He said having a smoking section in a restaurant was just like having a pissing section in a swimming pool.

Ted Bell

#17. I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

Mindy Kaling

#18. Most people wait for their parents to die with a mixture of tremendous sadness and plans for a new swimming pool.

Edward St. Aubyn

#19. I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer.

Tye Sheridan

#20. It's funny because I remember when I came to the U.S. with 'Swimming Pool,' the movie did well, and it was great box office for a French movie, but I remember I was a bit upset because all people talked to me about was the nudity.

Ludivine Sagnier

#21. One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Maya Angelou

#22. It was like splashing in a blowup baby pool in the backyard, when you'd become used to swimming in the ocean. How

Claire Thompson

#23. You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.

P. J. O'Rourke

#24. Even the suggestion of swimming be stirring. Watch a swimmer pass a building with a pool: the whiff of chlorine produces a wistful smile. Sit with swimmers when a TV commercial shows someone in the water: they actually stop and watch.

Lynn Sherr

#25. The swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

Steven D. Levitt

#26. They didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father had thrown him into the deep end of the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool when he was a little boy, and had then taken him to the rim of the Grand Canyon.

Kurt Vonnegut

#27. It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role.

Kym Whitley

#28. I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

Xavier Cugat

#29. But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination.

Jodi Picoult

#30. 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

#31. The truth is always an abyss. One must - as in a swimming pool - dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again - laughing and fighting for breath - to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

Franz Kafka

#32. I used to think love was like falling into a swimming pool, but maybe it was as delicate and slow building as a drizzle that turned into a heavy rain.

Dannika Dark

#33. I'm not in my element standing around in a bikini in front of strangers. I never stand up in a bikini, even at the swimming pool. I feel like a normal person when it comes to things like that. I'm like any other girl who doesn't want to show her bottom.

Elizabeth Hurley

#34. I guess it turns out choosing your life partner from a group of men trying to get their break in show business by sitting around shirtless in a swimming pool while cameras watch around the clock isn't the path to a soulmate after all.

Willie Geist

#35. -a feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo.

Douglas Coupland

#36. 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.

Shirley Knight

#37. The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place.

Florence Welch

#38. Beyond the slumpstone wall lay a backyard, a swimming pool. Dappled with morning light and tree shadows, the water glimmered in shades of blue from sapphire to turquoise, as might a trove of jewels left by long-dead pirates who had sailed a sea since vanished.

Dean Koontz

#39. In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

Henry A. Kissinger

#40. You can't beat sex outdoors, but there are not many places I haven't done it. Forests, barns, in swimming pool changing rooms, on top of hills, you name it.

Katie Price

#41. 'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Ludivine Sagnier

#42. 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

#43. On singing in the swimming pool: If I can move the water, I can move the people.

Michael Bolton

#44. In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

Zhu Zhu

#45. 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

#46. It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

Gloria Swanson

#47. I always thought of him in terms of a duck, you know? Lancelot Satterwhite is to adoration as a duck is to water. He only wanted to be swimming around in a great pool of it, but it never soaked in to touch him, just always rolled off." "Sounds

Lauren Groff

#48. I suddenly remember how different I am from most of the kids here. Nobody would have to drag me or my brothers to the Bahamas; we'd swim there if we could. For us, a family vacation is staying at a local hotel with a swimming pool for a weekend.

Angie Thomas

#49. As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

Dana Torres

#50. Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

Tim Rice

#51. The only thing marring the illusion is an empty swimming pool hanging halfway off the cliff on the edge of the grounds.

Susan Ee

#52. The wealth that was created by my investments wasn't put into a giant swimming pool as so many elected demagogues seem to imagine. Instead it benefitted our employees, their families and our community at large.

Kenneth Langone

#53. I've been in the shallow end of a pool, just kind of walking around, but this was my first time really swimming - and I was horrified! I actually lost it whenever I saw the edge of the pool. But I took baby steps and rewarded myself every step of the way.

Monique Coleman

#54. There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

Albert Shanker

#55. There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

Dick Cavett

#56. What do you do when you're swimming with sharks? You make sure you're the biggest, most badass thing in the pool.

Pippa DaCosta

#57. At the Colony Club, Barbados, you could swim straight from your hotel room to the swimming pool, via a small stream off your balcony, lined with stunning waterfalls and plant life.

Mandy Smith

#58. Chadham's idea of an open-minded, modern town had no room for faggots. Being gay made you about as welcome as a turd in the swimming pool.
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#59. Get down to your local swimming pool or your local swimming club, join up and see what it's like. I can guarantee that you're going to meet some great friends. Just being involved in water makes me happy and I'd like to see that transferred across to other people.

Liam Tancock

#60. Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise.

Thomas Woods

#61. No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care?

Susan Marg

#62. If you melt dry ice in a pool and go swimming, will you get wet?

Steven Wright

#63. Pools, MapHead knew, were generally green and rock-strewn. He must have heard it wrong. This must be a swimming flume.

Lesley Howarth

#64. Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.

Sam Weller

#65. Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.

Nathaniel Rateliff

#66. When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

Louis J. Mordell

#67. I'd once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture ... you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death!

Tom Conrad

#68. Jenna had started swimming in the deep end of the pity pool.

Rachel Hawkins

#69. I invited Onyx to be my plus one. Of course she was all in when I added that Grandma A had a massive swimming pool and was within a short driving distance to a two-story bookstore.

K.R. Grace

#70. I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.

Joe Biden

#71. Most cats don't like water, and despite her pretensions of tigerhood, Julie was no different. Yes, tigers have stripes; so do tabbies. If you want to know the difference, try tossing one of each into your swimming pool. Then I would recommend running.

Seanan McGuire

#72. If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?

Peter Boettke

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

Dennis Rodman

#74. The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I'm ploughing up and down the pool.

Sophie Hannah

#75. I was swimming in my swimming pool when 'The Secret Lovers' popped entire into my head. I got out, dried off, went upstairs, and finished the book in about 50 days.

Charles McCarry

#76. Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it's closets

Audrey Hepburn

#77. Swimming keeps me fit and flexible, and it helps that I have a large pool at my house in Beverly Hills.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#78. Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant

Victor Sebestyen

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

Natalie Wood

#80. The water in the ocean is like the water in a swimming pool, but you can't swim across it.

Robert Charles Wilson

#81. The jam had filled the courtyard and foyer and pushed the water out of the swimming pool. Where it touched the walls, little tendrils snaked their way upwards like searching fingers. There was an overpowering stench of strawberries.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#82. The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

John Shelby Spong

#83. you cant live your life swimming in the shallow of the pool.

Fabiola Sully

#84. I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

Betty Ford

#85. Would anyone test the memory of human children by throwing them into a swimming pool to see if they remember where to get out? Yet

Frans De Waal

#86. My head is my favorite swimming pool.

Lauren DeStefano

#87. Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, Ok Jerry?

Denis Leary

#88. I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

Eric Shanteau

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

Joan Didion

#90. I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

Melissa Etheridge

#91. The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up.
Amelia: You're soaking wet.
The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool.
Amelia: You said you were in the library.
The Doctor: So was the swimming pool.

Steven Moffat

#92. 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

#93. The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water.

Joe Hill

#94. I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.

Joe Biden

#95. I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

Bruno Tonioli

#96. 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.

Esther Williams

#97. I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.

Arsene Wenger

#98. I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me.

Rebel Wilson

#99. 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

#100. I love her bare legs from a distance. When she's standing by a pool. When she's facing the water, thinking. Her legs are white as watermelon rind, veined blue from cold. There's that 'H' shape behind her knees. The H trembles softly with the swimming-water cold.

Jaclyn Moriarty