Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Keith Sweat

They're about situations I've gone through being in a relationship. You won't hear me write a song about walking on a beach because that isn't what my life has been about. I write songs about what I know and what I know is the ups and downs of relationships. What I know about is what it feels like to hurt and be hurt. What I know about is love.

Mike Love

They have some revealing insights into the intricacies, what went on behind the scenes of the Beach Boys, ... I mean, everybody knows about hit records. But how we survived, what we went through, is pretty interesting.

There's a push and shove between people who want to take the beach and build condominiums and some local people who don't want to have anything to do with that.

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.

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,

Glen Davis

For breakfast, I'll have soy milk with some South Beach Diet cereal, and maybe a pear or an apple,

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.

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.

Russell Simmons

The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.

Roma Downey

I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is restorative. I also try not to overreact. I grew up in Ireland, and we are big tea drinkers, and I think it's less about the tea itself and more about the ritual and the moment to prepare.

Roma Downey

I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.

Susan Orlean

It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime.

Sufjan Stevens

I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city

Stewart Cink

If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.

Mother Teresa

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Paul Walker

I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.

Peter Lerangis

Amy Cahill didn't believe in omens. But black snow was falling, he earth was rumbling beneath her feet, her brother was meowing, and her uncle Alistair was prancing on the beach in pink pajamas. She had to admit, the signs were not promising.

Pele

You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.

Pierre Trudeau

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

Rabindranath Tagore

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

Puff Daddy

I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.

Piper Perabo

I've never been one for sitting on beaches.

Ted Danson

Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things like picking up trash on the beach, recycling and conserving water can have a big impact on the health of our ocean.

Ted Danson

It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort, ... Beach cleanups are something each of us can do any time of the year. I'm proud to be participating in the cleanup efforts today and I encourage everyone to make the time for these types of activities.

Randall Munroe

It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.