Quotes About The Game Of Pool

#1. it was the meaning of more than the game of pool, more than the five-by-ten-foot microcosm of ambition and desire. It seemed to him as if all men must know this because it is in every meeting and every act, in the whole gigantic hustle of men's lives.

Walter Tevis

#2. There are six-million shots in the game of pool.

Albert Einstein

#3. Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.

George Miller

#4. A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

Mary Karr

#5. My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

Kate O'Brien

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

Zhu Zhu

#7. Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

Willa Cather

#8. Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement.

Jessica Valenti

#9. I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

Pat Morita

#10. Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in relation to its material conditions, that is, when its law is known. Before that, we have only groping and empiricism.

Claude Bernard

#11. I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked!

Julianne Moore

#12. 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

#13. Joke:
What was the octopus's favorite game at the beach BBQ?
Tidal Pool Twister

Heather Wolf

#14. We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#15. I love pool because it's a game of strategy, a game of the eye, and your whole universe is like this. I really want to become a pool shark.

Peggy Lipton

#16. I can stand by a tweet. But Comedy Central said they couldn't publicly support me, unless I deleted it. I wasn't about to tell the people who work for me that they didn't have jobs anymore because I wasn't going to delete a stupid tweet.

Anthony Jeselnik

#17. OK, I'm not what you'd call 'wild.' But I'm no prude, either - I love to party, and I play a mean game of pool.

Shilpa Shetty

#18. I want YOU to be the one wanting me first. Pushing me first. Kissing me first. Don't be careful with me," he said. "Because I won't be careful with you.

Michelle Hodkin

#19. 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

#20. On the very outside chance that we might play again, you should know that pool is the closest thing I have to a religion. Don't ever throw a game with me again.

Jennifer Crusie

#21. I love to play games. Anything that is competitive. I love to play darts, shoot pool, any video game or board game, anything like that I am all about. For me is more about spending time with somebody, hanging out and enjoying yourself.

Casey James

#22. I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach.

Volker Bertelmann

#23. Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

William Penn

#24. Heard my girl Avery stomped you so hard in a game of pool that Grayson had to take pity on you before every college freshman at UVU saw just how small your junk is.

Kelly Oram

#25. I love the sacred moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.

Jason Gedrick

#27. In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was.

Daniel Negreanu