Surf Quotes - Page 4

• There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

  Diane Ackerman

  Wind, White, Goes On

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• I want to surf better tomorrow. I want to surf better in 10 years. When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.

  Kelly Slater

  Journey, Years, Want

  "Kelly Slater: 'Surfing is my religion'" by Nick Glass and Natasha Maguder, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2013.

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• She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

  William Gibson

  Beach, Moments, Perpetual

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• Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Endurance, Tumbling, Patient

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.

  Elizabeth Knox

  Rain, Swimming, Together

  Elizabeth Knox (2014). “Dreamhunter: Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet”, p.260, Macmillan

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• Tell me what it's like. The race." "What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and strongest of what is left from two weeks of preparation on the sand. It's the surf in your face, the deadly magic of November on your skin, the Scorpio drums in the place of your heartbeat. It's speed, if you're lucky. It's life and it's death or it's both, and there's nothing like it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Horse, Men, Race

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.333, Scholastic UK

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• And there is the girl. When I first see her and her dun mare from my vantage point on the cliff road, I am struck first not by the fact that she is a girl, but by the fact that she's in the ocean. it's the dreaded second day, the day people start to die, and no one will get close to the surf. But there she is, trotting up to the knee in the water. Fearless.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Ocean, People

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• I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet, come like a river full of drowned men which flows down to the wild sea, to the eternal surf, to Time! Bring them all to where I am waiting for you; we shall always be alone, we shall always be you and I alone on earth, to start our life!

  Pablo Neruda

  Jealous, Men, Hair

  Pablo Neruda (1994). “The captain's verses”

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• My only real fear was that I would not be able to surf again because I was concerned that I would not physically be able to do it. I knew that if I wasn't able to surf then my life would really change.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Inspirational, Real, Able

  "Soul Surfer Bethany Hamilton". Interview with Katie D. Neal, spryliving.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I don't have a lot of time to surf the net and see what everyone's wearing.

  Michael Pitt

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• I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Surfing, Hawaii, World

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• I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!

  Lee Ann Womack

  Surfing, Four, Littles

  "Lee Ann Womack Hits Road With Toby Keith". www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2005.

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• I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

  Junior Seau

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  "Seau to meet with Patriots, may end retirement" by The Associated Press, www.espn.com. August 18, 2006.

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• WE HAD AN AMAZING STAY AT SURF AND SUNSET VILLA. THE WHOLE FAMILY REALLY ENJOYED THE HOLIDAY AND THE SURF WAS GREAT!

  Tim Regan

  Holiday, Sunset, Villa

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• Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

  Moby

  Yawning, Years, Sea

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• We're all trying to get to the same island — whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive, it doesn't matter. What matters is when the red light goes on.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  What Matters, Islands, Light

  "How To Get Fired From Your Own Movie And Survive" by E.A. Hanks, www.buzzfeed.com. May 2, 2013.

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• A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

  John Millington Synge

  Journey, Hiking, Islands

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Aran Islands and Connemara”, p.39, Mercier Press Ltd

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• When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.

  Laird Hamilton

  Mistake, Ocean, Golf

  "Laird Hamilton: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 23, 2011.

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• You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.

  Andy Irons

  Surfing, Mud, Sometimes

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• If Jesus is on Tim Curran's side and Occy is Jesus, who gets to win?

  Cintra Wilson

  Jesus, Winning, Surfing

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• I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.

  Andy Irons

  Oblivion, Keel

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• Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand li. I see the entire Chu sky. Wind batters me, waves hit me-I don't care. Better than walking lazily in the patio. Today I have a lot of time. Here on the river the Master said "Dying-dying into the past-is like a river flowing."

  Mao Zedong

  Past, Wind, Sky

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• Here's the thing about faith: It gives us the strength to go on when we want to give in. It gives us the courage to get up when we want to lie down. It gives us the power to make a way out of no way when there ain't no way. Just as love can't make you strong until love has made you weak, well, faith can't lift you up until life has knocked you down. With faith or without it, we can't stop the waves. But with it, we don't need to. Because with it we can ride the surf.

  Patti LaBelle

  Faith, Strong, Lying

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• We grew up quickly, surrounded by guys eighteen and older, in their prime. They lived to surf, drink, raise hell and score heavily with women. I saw these guys going up and down the coast on surf trips, drinking and bagging girls, and all I could think of was 'What a neat life!'

  Greg Noll

  Girl, Drinking, Thinking

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.17, North Atlantic Books

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• After becoming established as a surfboard manufacturer and surf film producer whose films were shown on TV, all of a sudden all the teachers and counselors who wanted nothing to do with my ass during school were wanting to kiss it. They'd be interviewed by a newspaper of magazine and their tone would change. 'Oh yes, I knew Greg Noll. He was in my class. Fine, upstanding young man.' What bullshit.

  Greg Noll

  Teacher, School, Kissing

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