Beach Quotes - Page 13

• Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.

  Jose Saramago

  Party, Mean, Home

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike.

  Maria Sharapova

  Running, Trying, Riding

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• My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

  Robert Smith

  Memories, Children, Sitting

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I don't worry about my epitaph' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Susan Compo, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.

  Wilbur Smith

  Hunting, Islands, Years

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• Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.

  Wilbur Smith

  Golf, Play, Water

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• For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it. The men don't want to get married, they're lazy lions. Matthew McConaughey is their poster boy so they can procreate and live on the beach in the trailer and have kids and have money and be hedonistic.

  Patti Stanger

  Cheerleading, Kids, Boys

  "Patti Stanger, Millionaire Matchmaker, On New York Women, Marc Anthony, Season 5". Interview with Youyoung Lee, August 1, 2011.

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• Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.

  James Surowiecki

  California, Lovely, Climate

  "Debtor States". www.newyorker.com. April 12, 2010.

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• The cycle hit the beach and spun out. Emma went into a rolling crouch as she flew free of it, keeping her elbows in, pushing the air hard out of her lungs. She turned her head as she hit the sand, slapping her palms down to roll herself forward, absorbing the impact of the fall through her arms and shoulders, her knees folding up into her chest. The stars wheeled crazily overhead as she spun, sucking in her breath as her body slowed its rolling. She came to a stop on her back, her hair and clothes full of sand and her ears full of the sound of the wildly crashing ocean.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Fall, Ocean

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• Oh, shut up. He is not saying that he's too good-looking to be friends with girls. But then again, yesterday at the beach, there were a high percentage of beach beauties sitting very close to us and/or sauntering repeatedly past. And he never looked up once. I snort. "You poor handsome thing. If only you were ugly, then girls wouldn't have to throw themselves at you all the time. I could break your perfect nose for you, if it'd make your life easier.

  Kiersten White

  Girl, Past, Yesterday

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• There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you... right now.

  Brian Kenny

  Graduation, Dream, Jobs

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• My life is like a stroll upon the beach.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Life Is Like, Life Is

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.59, BookBaby

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• When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters weren't helped one iota by a manufactured quotation attributed to Union's president, Fred Hartley, alleging his amazement at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.... Fred Hartley never said what the press reported, as the transcript and the Senate committee members definitely established. But I don't suppose the truth will ever catch up with the more colorful falsehood.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Nature, Loss, California

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• I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Work, Ocean, World

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• It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.

  Deborah Jowitt

  Dance, Sand, Things To Do

  Deborah Jowitt (1985). “The Dance in Mind: Profiles and Reviews 1976-83”, Boston : D.R. Godine

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• Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime
  With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Science, Long, Sublime

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.76, Broadview Press

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• It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken, seabirds in ones or twos. The rackety, icy, offshore wind numbed our faces on one side; disrupted the formation of a lone flight of Canada geese; and blew back the low, inaudible rollers in upright, steely mist.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Spring, Ocean, Wind

  Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”

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• The autumn breeze rises on the shore at Fukiage- and those white chrysanthemums are they flowers? or not? or only breakers on the beach?

  Sugawara no Michizane

  Flower, Fall, Autumn

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• I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud. On television I am proud. But on a beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn't know how to look. How proud can you be when they don't even know what they're looking at?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Bodybuilding, People

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• The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

  Harry Golden

  Book, Reading, Believe

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• At Mach 20, we can fly from New York to Long Beach in 11 minutes and 20 seconds.

  Regina E. Dugan

  New York, Technology, Long

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• Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the seas bear only commerce - men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Lying, War, Rain

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. They will take out this volume from its secret hiding place and they will say: "There is no question, son, that these were unholy places in an evil age. Unfortunately, I had a whale of a time."

  Alistair Cooke

  Son, Golf, Men

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• Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Pebbles, Alcatraz

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• Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if they thought our bow was about to run on to a beach. Screaming seabirds formed a bridge across the sky in the direction of the distant island, which stood out sharper against the horizon as the red background widened and turned gold with the approach of the sun and the full daylight.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Running, Eye, Islands

  Thor Heyerdahl (1952). “The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas”

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• It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort. Beach cleanups are something each of us can do any time of the year. I'm proud to be participating in the cleanup efforts today and I encourage everyone to make the time for these types of activities.

  Ted Danson

  Ocean, Years, Effort

  "Ocean Ambassadors pledge drive launched". www.cnn.com. September 23, 1998.

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