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Swimming Pool Quotes

Did God get out of bed one morning and draw back the curtains (Reggie's imaginary God led a very domesticated life) and think, 'A drowning in a hotel swimming pool, I fancy. We haven't had that one in a while.
- Kate Atkinson

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

i had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry
- Megan Boyle

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

Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it's closets
- Audrey Hepburn

Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
- George Carlin

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

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

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.
- Xavier Cugat

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

My head is my favorite swimming pool.
- Lauren Destefano

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
- Alice Hoffman

My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the best seat in the house, right behind the Dodger's dugout. That's the only advantage that I can see about being dead: You get the best seat in the house.
- Jennifer L Holm

a dream to one day design terrifically odd-shaped swimming pools for a California clientele.
- Samantha Hunt

I could jump in a small swimming pool or dive in the big ocean, and I'd be equally as wet. So it is with love. Somebody get me a towel.
- Jarod Kintz

I am the bathtub of desire, but damnit woman, I saw you eyeing that swimming pool.
- Jarod Kintz

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

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

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

I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway in a sultry breeze against the unmistakable aqua splendor of the Caribbean Sea; drinking coconut, lime, and tequila from a scooped-out pineapple, with salt spray of breaking surf and sun kissing my skin.
Translation: I'd died and gone to heaven.
- Karen Marie Moning

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

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
- Al Pacino

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

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
- Geoffrey Rush

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

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.
- Liv Ullmann

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

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
- Natalie Wood

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