Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Smith

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

Robert Ludlum

Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles

Sara Teasdale

I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea -- We two will pass through death and ages lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.

Robert Barry

I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We go to cities.

Richard Louv

From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.

Richard M. Nixon

To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

Ric Keller

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

Rebecca Miller

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Tullian Tchividjian

Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

Robin Williams

You appreciate little things, like walks on the beach with a defibrillator.

Tracie Bennett

When I was 2, I used to put pictures of the Manhattan skyline in a little scrapbook. And I used to wear American 'stars and stripe' vests and Daytona Beach stuff and they used to call me 'The Little Yankee.' Thank you to my producers for having faith in a little nobody from Lancashire.

Tracy Chapman

I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

Sandra Cisneros

You can never have too much sky.

Saffron Aldridge

I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

Rumer Godden

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

Rodney Dangerfield

When I go to a nude beach, I always take a ruler, just in case I have to prove something.

Rodney Dangerfield

You don't know who to believe. Like Abraham Lincoln. He said all men were created equal. He never went to a nude beach.

Rodney Dangerfield

I was an ugly child. I got lost on the beach. I asked a cop if he could find my parents. He said, 'I don't know. There's lots of places for them to hide'.

Roberto Bolano

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

Wallace Stevens

Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.

Will Smith

Bouncing in the club where the heat is on, All night on the beach till the break of dawn

Virginia Woolf

She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

Virginia Woolf

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

Salman Rushdie

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

Salman Rushdie

This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.

Tove Jansson

It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.

Van Morrison

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

Van Morrison

hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...

Tyler, The Creator

I want the cheesy dates at the movies, the stupid walks at the beach and sharing straws in a cup

Thomas H. Cook

At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.

Thomas Carper

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.

Victoria Legrand

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

Victoria Legrand

With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.