Quotes of: Swimming-pool Keyword

This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

Gloria Steinem

I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same m...

Abigail Washburn

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

Harold H. Greene

Dead bodies do get a grayish blue/purple hue because blood pools in the capillaries and the body starts to decompose. It's not smurf blue, but it's not a pleasant shade.

Ann Hood

So then I bid him farewell and walked down the side of the pool leading to the outside entrance where I waited for soph to come down so we could walk home together

Adrian Hadzic

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.

Abraham Verghese

Life is not meant to be lived on the sidelines or the edge of the pool. It is meant to be embraced, inhaled, and devoured. It is meant to be tasted, chewed and swallowed, savoring each and every experience as if it were the most delicious delicacy ev...

Life

He had green eyes, so I wanted to sleep with him. Green eyes flecked with yellow, dried leaves on the surface of a pool. You could drown in those eyes, I said. The fact of his pulse, the way he pulled his body in, out of shyness or shame or a desire,...

Richard Siken

Begbie: Picture the scene: The other fuckin' week there, down the fuckin' Volley with Tommy, playing pool. I'm playing like Paul-Fuckin'-Newman by the way. Givin' the boy here the tannin' of a lifetime. So it comes to the, down to the last shot, the ...

Trainspotting

...I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...

A Familiar Rain

How would you like to star in your very own commercial?" "I'd rather swim in battery acid.

Audrey, Wait!

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

Jennie Finch

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

The Anthologist

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely.

Swimming Home

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel

This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life... is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love... does not conquer all.

Swimming with Sharks

For my sustenance at night, the whole that my hands can glean from the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks-- the herbs and the plenteous fruits...

At Swim-Two-Birds

If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.

The Power of Six