Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Victor Kiam

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

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