Scheitler Pool Quotes & Sayings

I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential. — Sidney Crosby

Don't you want to know what cookies is a code word for?"
"No! Good God, no! — Jennifer L. Armentrout

You can't have a novel without real, believable people, and once you get into either too theoretical a novel or too philosophical a novel, you get into the dangers that the French novel has discovered in the past 50 or 60 years. And you get into a sort of aridity. No, you have to have real, identifiable people to whom the reader reacts in a way as if they were real people. — Julian Barnes

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell. — Thomas Carlyle

Grief doesn't come in the moment of loss. It comes in the quiet of the aftermath. — William Kent Krueger

When two friends, like you and me, are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows. — Plato

If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate and assuage the grief of others, and by taking from them the sorrow and heaviness of life to restore them to joy, that is to say, to pleasure, why may it not then be said that nature does provoke every man to do the same to himself? — Thomas More

[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips. — Dolly Parton

Fred was afraid of the night, afraid his body would slip away from him, dissolve in that purple velvet with diamond eyes, the tropical night. The tropical night did not lie inert, like a painted movie backdrop, but was filled with whisperings, and seemed to have arms like the foliage.
Beauty was a drug. The small beach shone like mercury at their feet. — Anais Nin

The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us. — Wallace Stevens

Why now that he's sober and thoughtful, and living as a good man, does he get in the worst trouble of his life? — Louise Erdrich

One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves. — Marcel Duchamp