Swimming Pool Quotes:

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

- Joan Didion

source: Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.41, Zola Books

topic: Swimming, Pool, Swimming Pool

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

- Dennis Rodman

source: FaceBook post by Dennis Rodman from Jul 19, 2016

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Swimming, Funny Swimming, Motivational Swimming

I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.

- Jimi Hendrix

source: Tony Brown, Jimi Hendrix (2012). “Jimi Hendrix: 'Talking'”, p.130, Music Sales Group

topic: Morning, Swimming, Bed, Swimming Pool

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

topic: Funny, Money, Writing, Swimming Pool, Great Beatles

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

topic: Sorry, Believe, Swimming, Swimming Pool, Feeling Sorry

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

- Simon Sinek

topic: Swimming, Risk, Safe, Swimming Pool, Sidewalk

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

- Xavier Cugat

topic: Swimming, Play, Bananas, Swimming Pool

Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.

- David Hockney

source: David Hockney (1978). “Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink”

topic: Strong, Swimming, Men, Swimming Pool

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

topic: Swimming, Guarantees That, People, Swimming Pool

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

- Liv Ullmann

topic: Loneliness, Being Alone, Swimming, Swimming Pool

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

topic: Stress, Swimming, Night, Swimming Pool, De Stress

My head is my favorite swimming pool.

- Lauren DeStefano

topic: Swimming, Pool, My Favorite, Swimming Pool

Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

- Tim Rice

source: 'Herod's Song' (1970; music by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

topic: Swimming, Fool, Superstar, Swimming Pool, Prove To Me

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

topic: Girl, Character, Swimming, Swimming Pool

In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

- Ludivine Sagnier

source: Interview with Gregg LaGambina, film.avclub.com. September 28, 2011.

topic: Swimming, Color, Cold, Swimming Pool

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

- Natalie Wood

topic: Stars, Home, Swimming, Swimming Pool, Film Stars

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

topic: Education, Swimming, Use, Swimming Pool

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

source: "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned". www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

topic: Crush, Girl, Dream, Swimming Pool, First Crush

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

topic: Swimming, Cutting, Thinking, Swimming Pool, Palm Trees

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

topic: Dad, Reading, School, Sissy, Swimming Pool

I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

- Melissa Etheridge

topic: Swimming, Taught, Pool, Swimming Pool

Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

- George Carlin

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Witty, Swimming Pool

Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.

- Richard Bach

topic: Adventure, Swimming, Climbing, Swimming Pool, Wet

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

topic: Swimming, White, Water, Swimming Pool, Tennis Courts

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

topic: Swimming, College, Community, Swimming Pool, Dartmouth

Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Dream, Swimming, People, Swimming Pool

I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll make something. For example, one of the things I tried doing was getting a tiny loudspeaker and feeding the instruments off the tape through this tiny speaker and then through this huge long plastic tube - about 50 feet long - that they used to clean out the swimming pool in the place where I was staying. You get this really hollow, cavernous, weird sound, a very nice sound. We didn't use it finally, but nonetheless we well could have.

- Brian Eno

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Nice, Swimming, Long, Swimming Pool

One time I was at a swimming pool with my kids, a public pool. I had my daughter, my six year old, on my arm like this. She was like clamped on, and she's kicking. ... And then she got off and another random child just clamped on. It's like a rat. "Get off of me." "But I love you." "I don't know you, kid."

- Louis C. K.

topic: Funny, Daughter, Children, Swimming Pool

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

- Courteney Cox

topic: Dad, Home, Swimming, Swimming Pool

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

topic: Fighting, Swimming, Order, Swimming Pool, Springboards

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

topic: Summer, Hate, Swimming, Swimming Pool

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

topic: Eye, Swimming, People, Swimming Pool, Clouded

You've got to put a lot of hard work in and it's not just in the swimming pool. You've got to look after yourself, you've got to sleep well and you've got to recover between the sessions, whether that's resting or getting the right food inside you. I always try to get the best out of myself and strive for perfection.

- Liam Tancock

topic: Hard Work, Sleep, Swimming, Swimming Pool, Sleep Well

I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters. When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.

- M. J. Hyland

topic: Beach, Memories, Swimming, Swimming Pool, Past Happiness

I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.

- James Nares

topic: Daughter, Running, Hurt, Five Year Olds, Swimming Pool

I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, That's it.

- Brooke Burns

topic: Girl, Swimming, Night, Swimming Pool, Bright Lights

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

- James Garner

topic: Swimming, Wife, Saws, Swimming Pool, Flipped

I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.

- Maria Menounos

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Swimming, Thinking, People, Swimming Pool, Sipping

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

topic: Swimming, Night, California, Monterey, Brewing

People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.

- Michael Caine

topic: Swimming, Order, People, Swimming Pool, Diamond Rings

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

topic: Swimming, Thinking, People, Swimming Pool

Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.

- Thomas Heatherwick

topic: Art, Mean, Swimming, Opera House, Swimming Pool

The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool.

- Michael J. Massimino

source: "NASA Astronaut Discusses Gravity and the Dangers of Spacewalking". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

topic: Stars, Swimming, Night, Swimming Pool, Hubble

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

topic: Swimming, Thinking, Kind, Swimming Pool

I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.

- Czeslaw Milosz

topic: Beach, Swimming, Flesh, Swimming Pool

On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.

- Michael Bolton

topic: Moving, Swimming, Water, Swimming Pool

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

- Ludivine Sagnier

source: Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2011.

topic: Character, Swimming, Important, Swimming Pool, Important Moments

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

- Steve Guttenberg

topic: Teacher, Jobs, Stars, Swimming Pool, Margarita

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

source: James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

topic: Swimming, Stuff, Be Kind, Swimming Pool, Explosives

When you're younger and dumber, as a guy, you do things because you think you have to, because that's how things are done. You wait the standard three days to call, you don't approach the beautiful girl at the bar because you automatically assume she's out of your league, you'd rather jump in a swimming pool filled with jellyfish than tell a woman that you have feelings for her, etc.

- Jason Mulgrew

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Swimming, Swimming Pool, Feelings For Her