Surf Quotes - Page 9

• I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are.

  Eddie Vedder

  Water, Playing Music, Elements

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• I'm trying to teach my girlfriend how to surf. But I just end up yelling at her the whole time. Because I don't know how to surf.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girlfriend, Yelling, Trying

  Twitter post from Mar 06, 2010

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• Sometimes I wish I had every different sort of board that I could just bring out for this surf when I feeling like surfing this board. I love riding old single fins and twin fins.

  Mick Fanning

  Feelings, Surfing, Wish

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• To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.

  Alan Watts

  Beautiful, Depressing, Ocean

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it's just because they love doing it and they love each other and that's the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV.

  Ben Gibbard

  Thinking, Mtv, Play

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• I think there are quite a few new Instro/Surf groups that are really great. The Mermen are good and there doing something different. The Space Cossacks, Penetrators, The Fathoms, I really like The Falcons from Canada, Mike Beddoes is a really fine guitar player. I like Nokie Edwards of The Ventures, who gave me a guitar lesson once when we were playing opposite them in 1962 at The Rose Garden Ballroom in Pismo Beach. That's were The Impacts started and got signed to Del Fi in 1962.

  Merrell Fankhauser

  Beach, Player, Garden

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• I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.

  Etgar Keret

  Fall, Writing, Giving

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

  William Finnegan

  Sports, White, Surfing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.

  William Finnegan

  Country, Father, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on a novel. My third novel, in fact.

  William Finnegan

  Jobs, Writing, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Gerry Lopez was a famous surfer back then and his board had a lightning bolt in the in the middle, so my Dad made me a surf/skateboard with a lightning bolt on it.

  Christian Hosoi

  Dad, Lightning, Boards

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Back in the day however, careers were strictly built on competitions, just like surfing, though surfing is changing too so you can free surf and still get paid. So I think that rivalry was really because of the fans and the media who built it up, but it did bring something exciting about the sport, just like in any sport, whether it's Larry Bird or Magic Johnson, I think it just made skating that much more exciting.

  Christian Hosoi

  Sports, Thinking, Media

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I know when I've been surfing I've got a sense of level of calmness to me, and when I hit the ocean, even in its presence, at the shore, and especially by a powerful surf, I've been put in my place as a person.

  Nick Carroll

  Sports, Powerful, Ocean

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• This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is b.s. Not only do you kick him—you kick him until he passes out—then beat him over the head with a baseball bat—then roll him up in an old rug—and throw him off a cliff into the pounding surf below!!!!!

  Michael Scanlon

  Baseball, Bats, Kicking

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• We're going to Surf City, gonna have some fun. Now, two girls for every boy.

  Jan Brett

  Girl, Song, Fun

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• Consumer habits have changed dramatically. People have gotten used to getting the news they want, when they want it, how they want it, and where they want it. And this change is here to stay. Despite all the dire reports about the state of the newspaper industry, we are actually in the middle of a golden age for news consumers who can surf the Net, use search engines, access the best stories from around the world, and be able to comment, interact, and form communities.

  Arianna Huffington

  People, Community, Age

  "The Debate Over Online News: It’s the Consumer, Stupid" By Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2009.

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• We start eating, watch television, surf the Internet, or go shopping and buy something. That gives us a rush of feeling, some adrenaline and excitement.

  Geneen Roth

  Shopping, Giving, Feelings

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I can always be reminded how small I am when I try to surf a wave that's a little bit out of my league, and I just get pummeled. And, when your life flashes before your eyes kind of stuff, deep down under the water where you don't know what's up or down, and that kind of thing, or just Mother Nature reminding you how small you are compared to it. That's kind of the main thing for me.

  Aaron Bruno

  Mother, Eye, League

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• I'm getting older now, and though I still surf well, it's hard for me to paddle in big surf.

  Robert Englund

  Getting Older, Bigs, Wells

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm doing a lot of boogie-boarding now. It's actually better exercise, I get a lot more waves, and if I'm out in big surf, I can duck under the waves much easier.

  Robert Englund

  Exercise, Ducks, Wave

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One Christmas, I just begged my parents like "I want to try to surf on a real board instead of these boogie boards and rafts" and they got me one.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Real, Parent, Trying

  Source: www.hamptons.com

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• As soon as I stood up on that hard surfboard, I went so fast and it was such an incredible feeling that I was obsessed, and I fell in love with it, so I never stopped. So, that's how it all started, being around people at the beach and other surfers and then finally getting an actual surf board, and falling in love with that feeling.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Beach, Falling In Love, People

  Source: www.hamptons.com

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• [The Surf Lodge performance] is sort of like an annual thing.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Annuals, Performances, Lodges

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• The Surf Lodge has got to be seven or eight years I've been playing there, every summer. It's definitely one of the most fun gigs of our whole East Coast tour. The beautiful atmosphere, amazing stage overlooking that beautiful lagoon - it's just a really hip, cool spot to play. We always look forward to it, every year.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Beautiful, Summer, Fun

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• I just think that's the most amazing thing to be able to go to places like Japan and surf all day and then that night, play music. It's never been one of those things that's disrupted the flow of one and other, they've just enhanced one and other. It's incredible. It's beautiful that I found these two things that help each other out.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Beautiful, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.hamptons.com

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