Beach Quotes - Page 30

• If I had to pick one tribe to go back and live with permanently - and I hate doing this, it's not a contest - it would be the people of Anuta, in the South Pacific. It's got white beaches, blue seas, good food and gentle, friendly people who have a wonderful philosophy of sharing. And it's warm.

  Bruce Parry

  Hate, Philosophy, Blue

  "My hols: Bruce Parry". Times Online UK, September 16, 2007.

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• I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.

  Teddy Sears

  Volleyball, Weekend, Surfer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.

  Leonard Cohen

  Pain, White, Office

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.80, Emblem Editions

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• Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.

  Tony Bishop

  Moving, Sea, Fishing

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• This year's Olympics will be replacing the women's beach volleyball bikinis with uniforms that are less revealing. The stricter dress code was made to appease the conservative nation of 'Buzzkillistan.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Volleyball, London Olympics

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• The point of all this is to be able to spend more time at the beach!

  Nils John Nilsson

  Life, Able, More Time

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• I don't know whether to admit it or not. You think I should tell them, Snerdley? Okay. Folks, some good friends of mine who live here in Palm Beach bought a Smart Car... and there's a picture of me in it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Smart, Good Friend, Thinking

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• WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.

  Walt Whitman

  Drinking, Sleep, Boys

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.94, University of Iowa Press

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• I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.

  Albert Camus

  Wind, Waiting, Glue

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• There was something I needed to say. “Sorry. About before.” Fang shot a sideways glance at me, his eyes dark and inscrutable, as always. He looked back out at the water. I didn’t expect any more acknowledgment than that. Fang never- “You almost gave me a heart attack,” he said quietly. “When I saw you, and all that blood . . .” He threw a small rock as hard as he could down the beach. “I’m sorry.” “Don’t do it again,” he said. I swallowed hard. “I won’t.” Something changed right then, but I didn’t know what.

  James Patterson

  Sorry, Heart, Eye

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• Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

  Bob Dylan

  Memories, Crazy, Fate

  "Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

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• There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

  Ice Cube

  Cities, Long, Waiting

  The Scene interview, www.cnn.com. December 15, 2006.

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• I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

  Anushka Sharma

  Boys, Rocks, Alternatives

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• She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

  Jandy Nelson

  Girl, Sun, Wraps

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.39, Penguin

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• ...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

  Robert Ludlum

  Summer, Loneliness, Night

  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Aquitaine Progression: A Novel”, p.64, Bantam

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• My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would run from blanket to blanket, from family to family and just sing Lion King songs acapella.

  Taylor Swift

  Summer, Running, Song

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• There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about four years, and I came running up to people on the beach, strangers that I chose at random and began to sing, and my family never knew where I was, they were always looking for me, trying to imagine who I was harassing this time .

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Song, Kings

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• Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm, he presses his lips against the inside of my wrist. I'm utterly still; I feel my pulse tap several times against his lips, and then he releases my hand. "For luck," he says. He takes Dove's lead from me. "Sean," I say, and he turns. I take his chin and kiss his lips, hard. I'm reminded, all of a sudden, of that first day on the beach, when I pulled his head from the water. "For luck," I say to his startled face.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Kissing, Hands, Water

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• Now, back to my vacation idea.” Finn grinned, showing off his perfect white teeth. “Just think about it. You, Owen, me, and Bria, all happily ensconced in a swanky hotel by a beautiful beach. Bria in a bikini. You and Owen doing your own thing, Bria in a bikini. Did I mention Bria in a bikini?

  Jennifer Estep

  Beautiful, Thinking, Vacation

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Thread of Death”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stars, Sky, Sand

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House

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• On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how many formations might they make And who am I ever To imagine I could know Such a marvelous business? When the sun broke It poured willingly its light Over the stones That did not move, not at all, Just as, to its always generous term, It shed its light on me, My own body that loves, Equally, to hug another body.

  Mary Oliver

  Moving, Light, Hug

  Mary Oliver (2010). “Swan: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.9, Beacon Press

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• This is the worst thing to happen to beaches since the Speedo.

  Bill Maher

  Worst, Speedos, Happens

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• living life was like putting the beach into a jar. The point wasn’t to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first—the big, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people and experiences—and fit the lesser things in around them. Otherwise, the best things might get left out

  James Patterson

  Beautiful, Live Life, Rocks

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.

  Deb Caletti

  Car, Dreamy

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida. Then it got weird.

  Tim Dorsey

  Florida, Legs, Bumper Sticker

  Tim Dorsey (2012). “Pineapple Grenade: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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