Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

Heath Ledger

Growing up in Australia, you never feel like you're going to live beyond that place. You wake up and you go to the beach, and you do your homework. You're just a kid.

Helena Christensen

It's really intimidating to go on the beach in a bikini.

Joanne Froggatt

People recognise me when I'm holiday on the beach.

Jim James

It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.

John Mellencamp

We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.

Stephen Coonts

That's all it's meant to be, ... This is not a literary fiction. This is page-turning fiction that you take to the beach and read for diversion. If I do that, I've done my job.

Aubrey McClendon

I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.

Edsger Dijkstra

When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.

Compared to tennis, the points are a little longer, so the game develops more. In doubles on the men's pro tour, the game is about 80 percent offense, whereas in beach tennis it's about 50-50.

Our concern has been that the development be as far east as possible because we are trying to stop expansion into western Palm Beach County. We would encourage anything that takes them away from the western properties.

The movie is like a big wave that is going to hit the beach whether we like it or not. ... We're going to try to ride the wave. By riding the wave, I mean using every opportunity we can to tell the world about the reality of Opus Dei and the reality of the Catholic Church.

O. J. Simpson

Every time we made a run, Long Beach dug in and took the momentum back again. Long Beach did some really nice things. They were hitting on all cylinders offensively. McCutcheon got going offensively and we couldn't stop her.

Right now we're doing about 15-20 boats a day, and in a couple weeks that will increase to about 30 to 40 a day, ... At Jefferson Beach there are seven heated storage facilities and three cold storage buildings. There's room for a lot of boats.

Rainier Beach played hard about five or six minutes. Lynden played hard the rest of that time.

Do they want a beach vacation where relaxation is the only thing on the menu, do they want to explore new lands, do they want to do something adventurous?

Cultural venues should be all over Palm Beach County. The west has this population and deserves super libraries, shopping centers and entertainment. It's part of bringing amenities to where people live.

This bill is a wolf in sheep's clothing. I have never seen a greater threat to the coast of California. Many coastal states see this as a direct threat to 25 years of bipartisan, bicoastal protection of their most important beaches and coastlands.

This beach is verboten for people practically 50 years old,

This is a fight for order and control of our streets. There are hooligans out there who believe they have the right to determine who goes to beaches and streets and who will control parts of our parks and our streets.

They start to notice how dirty the beach is, and all the little pieces of trash they start to see. I've had people tell me that doing a three-hour Coastal Cleanup Day stays with them all year.

George Smith

You never take Deerfield Beach lightly. We weren't ready to play, but the kids showed character in the second half.

This is Beat central. North Beach is where it belongs.

This is definitely the best time to surf, and the beach gets pretty crowded when there's a hurricane out there.

This is home to sea turtles, sperm whales, a number of charismatic species in serious jeopardy. The potential impact of a spill and the speed with which it would be brought to the southeast beaches is extremely alarming.

This is another sign of the beach coming back.

They are the Myrtle Beach visitor. It's great for Ocean Lakes, for Myrtle Beach and for the camping resort industry.

This place is great, especially in summer. It's an old villa facing the sea with a nice private beach and a good restaurant. And it's close to the market.

Bruce Springsteen

There were ghosts of the eyes of all the boys you sent away, ... They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets.

It seems like a more logical swap. Part of the problem with the beach beyond all the title questions is the value of the property.

Gerard Way

Beach balls at festivals are the work of the devil.

Harry Golden

The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette.