Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Landau

The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get involved with sound. And there have always been artists who could make the equipment serve their needs in a highly personal way - I would single out the Beatles, Phil Spector, the Beach Boys and Thom Bell.

Jon Foreman

I try to surf everyday or at least go for a walk on the beach if the waves are flat. The more I travel, the more I appreciate where I live and the ocean.

Henry Rollins

'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece.

Henry Beston

The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and june these elemental presences lived and had their being...

Henry Beston

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Manny Farber

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

Todd Rogers

The end of 2003, we took a second in Huntington Beach (Calif.) and we were pretty consistent after that. We were in the top five, won twice this year; we've always been in the mix, and we've rarely done poorly.

Robert Groves

You watch the screen and follow the dance steps. It's funny to watch. Kids are sweating and out of breath, but having a good time. I see people doing this all the time at video arcades at the beach or in malls.

You will see about 40 to 50 people getting on buses in the morning to get to Myrtle Beach and to jobs.

This is like saying you need to replenish a beach and showing up with five grains of sand.

This is a little bit unique with what the town wants to do here (with the groins). In an ideal world, what we envision, this could be one element in the overall beach management plan.

Elle Macpherson

I've always found it very difficult to understand the laws as far as nudity in America - how some things are pornographic and some things are not pornographic. It's against the law to go topless on the beach, but you can go buy a gun. That just seems so absurd to me.

Emo Philips

They have a sign at the beach, "no glass bottles". I think that's so the other sand particles don't feel like underachievers.

Emo Philips

I love Florida. I love the beach. I love the sound of the crashing surfers against the rocks.

The damage on her left leg was really extensive, and I didn't know whether she had just gone into shock -- but she'd pretty much stopped bleeding by the time I got her on to the beach -- so I didn't know how we were going to save her.

The idea is that the customer can wear it to the beach and go to pick up the kids and go to the store.

The kids are just going to relax tomorrow. They're going to the beach tonight and we don't have anything big planned for tomorrow.

Gloria Vanderbilt

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.

Geraldo Rivera

Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk

H. G. Wells

Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

Grace Kelly

I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.

Grace Paley

Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

Michael Stipe

We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.

Randy Pausch

I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured,

Rajneesh

Be in relaxation a few moments. It can be any kind of situations - swimming in the river, relax with the river, or sunning on the beach, relax with the sun - anything. Life is full of opportunities.

Rainer Maria Rilke

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

Rafael Nadal

If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.

George W. Bush

That road to V-E Day was hard and long, and traveled by weary and valiant men. And history will always record where that road began. It began here, with the first footprints on the beaches of Normandy.

Michael Oppenheimer

They'll either have to provide a heck of a lot of beach replenishment or build something harder, like a sea wall,

They killed them with blows to the head and machetes. It is very brutal, the beach would have been covered in blood.

They live in their cars. They're setting up tents on the beach again.