Pool Table Quotes

#1. I just watched you bend over a pool table in those ridiculously tight jeans. Over. And over. You think I could stop at kissing?

Tessa Bailey

#2. 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

#3. If I look closely, I bet I could see my own past, lying on the floor somewhere between the ancient jukebox and the pool table.

Kol Anderson

#4. My dad and I compete on the pool table; that's the most important competition of our lives. The fact that I'm writing and it works for me is one of the great joys for him. We talk about writing, and it's great.

Nick Harkaway

#5. 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

#6. He was older and loved to play Eric Clapton's single "Change the World" on repeat while we snorted cocaine off the side of his pool table with lucky $2 bills.

Christina McDowell

#7. But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.

Brad Garrett

#8. Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.

Stephen Jay Gould

#9. Near the pool table, two guys straighten from the shots they were lining up.
Dust places his pool stick on the table.

Katie McGarry

#10. All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a game of Beirut [a kind of beer pong] is a good sign!

Chace Crawford

#11. My only challenge was to tell my truth, man ... figure out what I had to say. These days, it's not enough to boost that roomful of strangers. The young comic spends all their time trying to sound different from the million other jokesters grabbing for the mic.

Lenny Bruce

#12. If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'

Chi McBride

#13. To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

Bonnie Friedman

#14. I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.

Prince William

#15. I was in danger of drowning, and nobody lost at sea worries about whether the spar they cling to is made of elm or oak.

Jeanette Winterson

#16. The only reason guys wanna play pool with girls is to see you leaning over the table, looking sexy. Not that I wouldn't enjoy that ... immensely. - Chris

Jennifer Comeaux

#17. 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

Steven Wright

#18. I'm a better polemicist in prose.

Ted Rall

#19. Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

Isabel Allende

#20. There is nothing to fear other than my mind.

Shantideva

#21. And nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

Jack Kerouac

#22. I am not surprised that this is a longer bit of work than many of us would have hoped. It is not where any of us would have hoped it is. And I think we need to give credit to the Republicans in Congress who have done everything they can to defeat every jobs bill and slow down the economy.

Martin O'Malley

#23. I consoled myself with the knowledge that if I were any good at pool I'd run the table quickly and not be able to play as long. As with so many things, there was utility in avoiding excellence.

Moby

#24. Only brand names register in the mind ... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Al Ries

#25. Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.

Tony Curtis

#26. The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.

Andrew Harvey

#27. For lunches he rode the elevator to the fourth-floor food court and ate Thai Town or Subway at a table tucked among potted tropicals, gazing past milling teenagers to the little penny-choked fountain where a copper salmon spat water into a chlorinated pool.

Anthony Doerr

#28. He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Arthur Balfour

#29. I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages ... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

Janet Fitch

#30. The table was a pool of candlelight -- so bright that the rest of the room seemed almost black, with the faces of the family portraits floating in the darkness.

Dodie Smith

#31. What we need to do is lead an international coalition which includes very significantly the Muslim nations in that region who are going to have to fight and defend their way of life.

Bernie Sanders

#32. Nothing in life can be understood until you understand death.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon