Swimming Pool Quotes

“The dream pool is pushed out in the open and the dappled depths of our imagination become a uniformly blue intruder, often out of scale with its surroundings and nearly always discordant in colour and texture.”
― Elisabeth Beazley, Designed for recreation: A practical handbook for all concerned with providing leisure facilities in the countryside;

“If you are one of those lucky persons who own a pen that writes underwater, you might try living in a swimming pool.”
― Groucho Marx

“Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.”
― Ava Gardner

“Life is like an Ocean! You either swim to stay on the top, or do nothing and sink to the bottom!”
― Alex Haditaghi

“I was tossed into a pool beside the Suwannee River. Out behind an old motel. Sink or swim. Arms flailing in the deep end. Chlorine and Fear. I hurt my shoulder. Tweaked my ankle. Had to be pulled out. They laughed about it all summer. Now pools are reminders. That your friends watched you sink.”
― Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

“Pools, MapHead knew, were generally green and rock-strewn. He must have heard it wrong. This must be a swimming flume.”
― Lesley Howarth, MapHead 2

“How beautiful it is to swim in the tank!” He said after a while. “The water is so serene. And yet, when one thinks of it, the sea is no less impressive, when a thousand billows beat against the earth and still do it no injury.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“You can not measure the depth of the sea by swimming in a pool.”
― M.Rehan Behleem

“The main rectangular swimming pool ran perpendicular to the house, which you wouldn't know because it was almost completely covered in a cloud of white. I walked closer, stunned at the beautiful lotus and water lily blooms floating beneath my feet. A glass aisle was laid across the center. You felt like you were walking---or sitting--- in a Monet painting. Complementary flowers lined the sides of the aisles, with chairs extending on either side of the now-concealed pool deck. I had no idea what wizardry kept the central flowers from floating freely, but my sister would walk down the aisle above a lush bed of white blossoms.
Beside it, the ornamental gardens had been tented for the reception. Cedric had managed to integrate the existing stone sculptures (French, Greek, and Italian antiques, of course) into the design. Tables dotted the scene, covered in custom cream linens with Italian lace overlays. Cut crystal stemware and antique silverware donned each place setting and would sparkle later that evening from the glow cast down from the crystal chandeliers overhead. And the flowers. The all-white flowers also created a table-runner effect that filled the entire length of each table and spilled over and down the sides.
A backdrop and stage had been erected at the end opposite the house, then covered in a cascade of white peonies and roses and mirrored by florals draped around the doorframes and windows of the back of our house.
It was an enchanted garden, rivaling that of a royal wedding.”
― Mary Hollis Huddleston, Piece of Cake

“In the diverse gallery of urban surprises, spotting a crocodile inside a swimming pool is just another masterpiece on the canvas of quirky city life.”
― Dipti Dhakul