Top 100 Quotes About Swimming Pool
#1. I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.
Joan Didion
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
Dennis Rodman
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I never would've thought seeing a hundred naked people around a swimming pool would have been dullsville, but it is.
Mark Haskell Smith
#9. 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
#10. If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture.
Joe Teti
#11. Jenna had started swimming in the deep end of the pity pool.
Rachel Hawkins
#12. 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
#13. I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.
Winston Churchill
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. The only thing marring the illusion is an empty swimming pool hanging halfway off the cliff on the edge of the grounds.
Susan Ee
#17. Pools, MapHead knew, were generally green and rock-strewn. He must have heard it wrong. This must be a swimming flume.
Lesley Howarth
#18. If you melt dry ice in a pool and go swimming, will you get wet?
Steven Wright
#19. I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.
Cedric Hardwicke
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Alex's eyes went wide. You can't bury them in my backyard. Damn it, Ian, we're putting in a swimming pool in the next couple of weeks. How am I supposed to explain that? First my French doors, then the hardwoods, and now you want to turn my backyard into a fucking body dump. It's not happening, Ian.
Lexi Blake
#23. The dream pool is pushed out in the open and the dappled depths of our imagination become a uniformly blue intruder, often out of scale with its surroundings and nearly always discordant in colour and texture.
Elisabeth Beazley
#24. 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
#25. I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter
Jesse McCartney
#26. 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
#27. 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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Huston Piner
#28. Writing is to copyediting what swimming is to pool maintenance.
Gary Corby
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. A poem is all that's left of my lost loneliness ...
It is like a window that looks into a swimming pool ...
Or an a empty gun indentation in velvet ...
And a baby gazelle given as a gift ...
Chelsey Minnis
#32. 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
#33. They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.
Brock Yates
#34. Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim
Julius Malema
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Cecelia turned her gaze away from the girls and looked at the shimmer blue of their kidney shaped swimming pool, with its powerful underwater light, the perfect symbol of suburban bliss, except for that strange intermit sound like a baby choking that was coming from the pool filter.
Liane Moriarty
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. The joy's gone out of me like the pee from a small boy in a swimming pool on a hot day.
Neil Gaiman
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.
William Faulkner
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. I put a gentle hand to my chest as I surveyed the situation. The turquoise
blue swimming pool some distance behind the lawn was no longer behind that lawn, but within my thorax, and my organs swam in it like excrements in the blue sea water in Nice.
Vladimir Nabokov
#54. When you have a watch, time is like a swimming pool. There are edges and sides. Without a watch, time is like the ocean. Sloppy and vast.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#55. Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it's closets
Audrey Hepburn
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of the internet just perpetuating this myth that we're all just sitting around in these mansions like Steven Tyler, bopping around in our swimming pool. It's bullshit.
DJ Shadow
#60. 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
#61. Prosperity Gospel". At his United Church Science of Living Institute in New York he would tell his congregation "close your eyes and see green. Money up to your armpits, a roomful of money and there you are, just tossing around in it like a swimming pool.
Reverend Ike
#62. I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.
George Brett
#63. 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
#64. you cant live your life swimming in the shallow of the pool.
Fabiola Sully
#65. The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.
John Shelby Spong
#66. 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
#67. Body hair. You know when you're swimming as a kid and you want to crawl on your dad? None of us went anywhere near him. 'My god, a beaver! Everyone out of the pool!
Jon Stewart
#69. The water in the ocean is like the water in a swimming pool, but you can't swim across it.
Robert Charles Wilson
#70. I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
Natalie Wood
#71. A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.
Simon Hoggart
#72. Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant
Victor Sebestyen
#73. Swimming keeps me fit and flexible, and it helps that I have a large pool at my house in Beverly Hills.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#74. 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
#75. The swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.
Steven D. Levitt
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.
Frederick Lenz
#79. 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
#80. There's something about yoga that makes it a spiritual experience, I'm realizing. It's opening me beyond myself. A good class seems like a dose of LSD--without the worry you'll find yourself jumping off a roof into a swimming pool.
Meryl Davids Landau
#81. 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
#82. Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.
Liv Ullmann
#83. I was in love with Philip, but had ongoing proof that romantic love is like a swimming pool. People fall into it and scramble out of it wet and disheveled, usually in one piece but damaged, all the time.
Helen Brown
#84. 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
#85. You go ahead. I'd rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds' urine.
Justin Halpern
#86. A good swimming pool could do that - make the rest of the world seem impossibly insignificant, as far away as the surface of the moon.
Emma Straub
#87. The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead.
Ian Fleming
#88. 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
#89. Most people wait for their parents to die with a mixture of tremendous sadness and plans for a new swimming pool.
Edward St. Aubyn
#90. 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
#91. He said having a smoking section in a restaurant was just like having a pissing section in a swimming pool.
Ted Bell
#92. That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer.
Haruki Murakami
#93. When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, 'OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo,' and I was having problems coping with that image.
Ludivine Sagnier
#94. When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping?
Anthony Liccione
#95. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
George Carlin
#96. Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.
Eric Shanteau
#97. Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff."
"Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.
James Patterson
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach, play outside sports. Being active outside. Going swimming, hanging by the pool, having a couple drinks, having a couple of your close buddies around, and just having a blast.
Rob Gronkowski
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