Surfing Quotes - Page 9

• You're surfing with all this glamour, and a lot of people are talking about Gwyneth, JLo, and Cameron.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Talking, People, Style

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• In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing down and simply being alone with our thoughts.

  Carl Honore

  Art, Media, Background Noise

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life.
  The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and weddings and hilarious jokes - fills a minute portion of an adult lifespan.
  The rest of life is the paddling: work, paying bills, flossing, getting sick, dying.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Sex, Rest Of Life, Sick

  Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.121, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that you can pass it along to someone who has never heard the expression.

  Shaun Tomson

  Expression, Essence, Heard

  Shaun Tomson, Patrick J. Moser (2006). “Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life”, p.134, Gibbs Smith

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• Surfing teaches patience . On land, surfers cannot will a swell to appear. They have to wait for nature to make the call. So surfers wait . They keep their eyes on the horizon and they wait.

  Shaun Tomson

  Eye, Land, Waiting

  Shaun Tomson, Patrick J. Moser (2006). “Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life”, p.43, Gibbs Smith

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• Surfing also teaches quality . I will wager that it is not the number of waves that makes a session memorable for any given surfer, but that one beautiful wave that he or she waited for … and rode all the way the way to shore.

  Shaun Tomson

  Beautiful, Memorable, Numbers

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• Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.

  Markus Zusak

  Brother, Cheer, Growing Up

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• I don't know how long I'll be competing but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Long, Competing, Know How

  "Riding the storm". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

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• In the 90s, there was a yahoo factor where there would be 50 people crowd surfing at one time! It was insane, and it had nothing to do with the music.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Insane

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• If you recognize a face while surfing through 200 channels, you will stop and listen. Celebrities give a positive aura and people like them. Their message appeals to people.

  Kajol

  People, Giving, Auras

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• It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

  Robert Pozen

  Reading, Home, Reality

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• I've never been to college, and I think about that. But I kept putting it off, and I am also thinking about having a child, and that's really important. Also, I want to do a lot of traveling and surfing - two of my hobbies.

  Jorja Fox

  Children, College, Thinking

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• There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.

  Charles de Lint

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Gps, Stories

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• I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Home, Heart, Land

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• I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play tennis, and golf - but surfing is definitely my favorite.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Home, Golf, Vacation

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• I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

  Oscar Nunez

  Writing, Use, Mail

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2008.

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• I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

  Lee Pace

  Brazil, Kind, Clumsy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I did some pretty crazy stuff that I never thought I would do, for the sake of a movie, like surfing in eight-foot waves in pitch-black darkness, where I can't see anything. That still haunts me, kind of, in my nightmares, but it was worth it, it was fun.

  Leven Rambin

  Fun, Crazy, Feet

  "EXCLUSIVE: Leven Rambin Talks Chasing Mavericks Blu-ray" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 01, 2013.

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• Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

  Spider Robinson

  Fun, Whales, Ideas

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• I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.

  Jon Foreman

  Thinking, Self, Expression

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• Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Thinking, Phones, Talking

  Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London), 21 Nov. 1997

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• There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.

  Kelly Slater

  Sports, Daughter, Mother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

  William Bligh

  Summer, Travel, Strong

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.43, BoD – Books on Demand

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• It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.

  Joel Parkinson

  Sports, Thinking, Causes

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