#pool

I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#good #i #i can #play #pool

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart. ↗

— Doug Ose

#because #damn #gene #here #i

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#among #below #extensive #glow #gorgeous

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#american cinema #become #cesspool #change #cinema

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#heart #how #human #human heart #must

I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race. ↗

— Stephanie Rice

#being #chore #come #day #go

I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life. ↗

— Ian Rush

#around #became #because #been #better

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. ↗

— George Sanders

#because #bored #cesspool #dear #enough

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#england #first #i #i was born #life

In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#birmingham #broken #come #completely #cope