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For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home.
jean chrétien— Chapter One, At Laurier's Desk, p. 29
Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow.
bernard membe— Quoted in Austin Beyadi, "Unity will end crises, Membe tells Africa," The Guardian (2008-03-28)
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.
stephen jay gould— Prologue, p. 16
Like Rome, Nkongsamba was built on seven hills, but there all similarity ended. Set in undulating tropical rain forest, from the air it resembled nothing so much as a giant pool of crapulous vomit on somebody's expansive unmown lawn.
William Andrew Murray Boyd— A Good Man in Africa, ch. 1 (1981)
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Bible (Old Testament)— Isaiah 35:5-7.
Timothy Winters comes to school With eyes as wide as a football pool, Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters: A blitz of a boy isTimothy Winters.
Charles Causley— 1957 'Timothy Winters'.
Now we lament one Who danced on a plume of words, Sang with a fountain's panache, Dazzled like slate roofs in sun After rain, was flighty as birds And alone as a mountain ash. The ribald, inspired urchin Leaning over the lip Of his world, as over a rock pool Or a lucky dip, Found everything brilliant and virgin.
cecil day lewis— 'In Memory of Dylan Thomas' (1953)
Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room. ... With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.
helena bonham carter— Los Angeles Magazine Vol. 44, No. 11 (November 1999), p. 169
Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.
Annie Dillard— An American Childhood
Brian has compared presenting The World at One to high diving into an empty pool, and hoping it will be filled before you reach the bottom.
brian hanrahan— BBC Radio 4 website (20 December 2010)
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
ovid— Book III part ix.
I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies,— You are my deepening skies,Give me your stars to hold.
sara teasdale— Peace
I returned to the Holiday Inn — where they have a swimming pool and air-conditioned rooms — to consider the paradox of a nation that has given so much to those who preach the glories of rugged individualism from the security of countless corporate sinecures, and so little to that diminishing band of yesterday's refugees who still practice it, day by day, in a tough, rootless and sometimes witless style that most of us have long since been weaned away from.
hunter s. thompson— Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979)
Her face is a map of the worldIs a map of the worldYou can see she's a beautiful girlShe's a beautiful girl.And everything around her is a silver pool of lightThe people who surround her feel the benefit of it —It makes you calmShe holds you captivated in her palm.
kt tunstall— "Suddenly I See"
Without the safety of the flotation device, or the pool bottom beneath her feet, Makayla was suddenly drowning in fear.
lis wiehl— p. 299 (Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson))
... this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.
jane addams— Ch. 7 (Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910))
The other thing that's different about the real world [compared to high school] is that it's much larger. In a large enough pool, even the smallest minorities can achieve a critical mass if they clump together.
paul graham— "Why Nerds are Unpopular", February 2003
Cold Mountain is hidden in white clouds It’s peaceful to be cut off from the busy world I use dry grass for cushions in my mountain home My only light is the round moon My bed is the rock beside the green pool Tigers and deer are my companions I delight in this happy peaceful life Forever beyond the world of men
han shan— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840
The higher the trail the steeper it grows Ten thousand tiers of dangerous cliffs The stone bridge is slippery with green moss Cloud after cloud keeps flying by Waterfalls hang like ribbons of silk The moon shines down on the bright pool I climb the highest peak once more To wait where the lone crane flies
han shan— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840
Clear and cool, clear and cool, By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool.
Charles Kingsley— Song I, st. 1.
We have the pool Ah - No that's cruel Why do you take me for A fool? Try the rails It's just not me No No No No - Siree
colin moulding— "Set Myself On Fire"
One who considers the prayers to be insignificant and trivial is not from me. By Allah! He shall never come close to me at the pool of Kauthar.
— Biharul Anwar, Volume 82, Page 224
Cold Mountain is hidden in white clouds It’s peaceful to be cut off from the busy world I use dry grass for cushions in my mountain home My only light is the round moon My bed is the rock beside the green pool Tigers and deer are my companions I delight in this happy peaceful life Forever beyond the world of men
— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840
The higher the trail the steeper it grows Ten thousand tiers of dangerous cliffs The stone bridge is slippery with green moss Cloud after cloud keeps flying by Waterfalls hang like ribbons of silk The moon shines down on the bright pool I climb the highest peak once more To wait where the lone crane flies
— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Sigmund Freud— In: Del Thiessen Bittersweet Destiny: The Stormy Evolution of Human Behavior, Transaction Publishers, 31 December 2011, p.258
The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops; let all their moisture flow, In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 172.
One who considers the prayers to be insignificant and trivial is not from me. By Allah! He shall never come close to me at the pool of Kauthar.
— Biharul Anwar, Volume 82, Page 224 (Shi'ite Hadith)
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
— Book III part ix. (Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love))
The monkey sat on a pile of stone And he stared at the broken bone in his hand Strains of a Viennese quartet rang out across the land The monkey looked up at the stars And he thought to himself Memory is a stranger History is for fools And he cleaned his hands in a pool of holy writing Turned his back on the garden and set out for the nearest town"
— Roger Waters, Amused to Death, (1992), "Perfect Sense"
