Culture Quote by Troy Dumais

A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A…

— Joan Didion

“a dream to one day design terrifically odd-shaped swimming pools for a California clientele.”

— Samantha Hunt

A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

— Joan Didion

I love pool because it's a game of strategy, a game of the eye, and your whole universe is like this. I really want…

— Peggy Lipton

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

— Mary Karr

Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.

— George Miller

Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture…

— Thomas Heatherwick

“ Pool Enclosures Use your pool all year long! We design and manufacture retractable pool enclosures and fully automatic patio and restaurant enclosures.”

— Jacob Adams

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

— Francis Bacon

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

— Joan Didion

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

— George Mikes

If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.

— Greg Gutfeld