The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.
I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.
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.
For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water
The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths.
Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor.
I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.
Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.
Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
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.
In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.
I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.
O'Bannion: You are an embarrassment to the game of pool and should be glad I even let you play at my table.
Fast Eddie: No bar? Cashier: No bar, no pinball machines, no bowling alleys, just pool... nothing else. This is Ames, mister.
Fast Eddie: I'm shooting pool, Fats. When I miss, you can shoot.
Jim Stark: [walks down the stairs and into the empty pool] Oh, a sunken nursery!
Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.
