Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Winslow

I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.

Tony Curran

I miss family and friends, and I'd like to get back to work more in Scotland, and do more things like theatre and 'Red Road.' But over here you have the beach and the mountains and the climate. A lot of people diss L.A. as being all tinsel town, fake this and fake that, but a place is only as good as the people you know.

I think we just want to be on a beach and around cute girls.

We had someone from Virginia Beach call alarmed that this means she can no longer take her kids to school. There's an educational process that's needed.

We're doing what we need to do to get the plans approved, and make sure everything is up to standard and good for the community. We're going through the process. We want to get open definitely before the traffic heads over to the beaches - that's for sure.

Cyril Connolly

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Cyril Connolly

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

Daniela Pestova

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.

Danielle Steel

I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

Corrie Ten Boom

When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.

Steve Scott

We used to have a beach here; we don't have a beach anymore. It's high all the time -- not just this storm; all the storms.

With the 15-foot waves, we did get some beach erosion and high water spray on Route 5.

We watched a pattern develop. Twenty years ago, seniors went to the beach after the prom and then to someone's house for breakfast. From that, it's turned into a weekend-long orgy that every year has become incrementally more excessive.

Luke Bryan

I grew up in a family where everybody had a good time and we were at the lake every weekend and going to the beach and living a good life. It's been the way we always lived, and my wife's the same way - enjoy every day and have fun.

Brian Wilson

The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I'm very proud of them.

Billy Collins

If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.

Hill Harper

My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What's beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.

Amy Bloom

My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one - but all my kids have to be there, because they are all lobster-lovers. Making a bolognese sauce over pappardelle for my husband on a winter evening, because he loves my bolognese sauce and it's his comfort food.

Wayne Huizenga

We love our city and we love our area. We think the weather is the best. We think we have the best hotels, the best restaurants, the best beaches and the best golf courses.

David Brown

When you have a day like this, this is the place to be ... the perfect weather for a beach day ... a nice holiday.

Richard Brooks

We're trying redefine Virginia Beach more as a luxury destination.

We've definitely had some significant beach erosion. The longer the storm sits, the worse the damage.

Karen Hughes

We've worked at Indian River Inlet several times and once at Gordon's Pond in Rehoboth. The kids enjoy going back to the planting spot ... to see how their beach grass is doing.

We don't want to close it down. It's the only place that the public has to go to the beach in this area.

David Baldacci

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

David Ogilvy

I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.

Danny Boyle

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

Danny Boyle

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

Dani Shapiro

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

Colbie Caillat

I try to keep myself busy. I always hang out with my family and friends and my dogs. Go to the beach. Go swimming. Go get exercise. Go on a hike.

Cormac McCarthy

And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The sea hath no king but God alone.