Swimming Hole Quotes

#1. I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime ... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.

Silas House

#2. Jutta whispers, A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn't let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren't we half-breeds too? Aren't we half our mother, half our father?

Anthony Doerr

#3. It was a summer of great rumblings in the belly of the earth, of atomic flatulence and geopolitical indigestion, consequences of the consumption of sectarian chickpeas by our famished and increasingly incontinent subcontinent.

Mohsin Hamid

#4. Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.

Bryant McGill

#5. Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.

Tom Rachman

#6. You can use your time to build bridges or walls. The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.

Rick Warren

#7. Well, anyway, when I am grown up," said Anne decidedly, "I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words. I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts one's feelings.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. Any good actor is a character actor.

James Remar

#9. Everyone loves a good baddie.

Richard C. Armitage

#10. Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Oliver Goldsmith

#11. The human world, he reflected, was divided into little clusters of people - tiny tribes, small groups of friends, families - and if you belonged to only a few of these, then your life was circumscribed.

Alexander McCall Smith

#12. The Moral Sense Test developed by Harvard psychologists in 2003 can be found online at: moral.wjh.harvard.edu

Thomas Cathcart

#13. All art moves between the extremes.

Jan Fries

#14. For one last second, I saw them again the way I had that evening: a golden apparition on the front steps, shining and poised like young warriors stepped out of some lost myth, heads lifted, too bright to be real.

Tana French