Beach Quotes - Page 21

• Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

  Douglas Coupland

  Venice, Looking Good, Poor

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• The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

  John Cusack

  Talking, Years, Venice

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• Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

  Tom Hayden

  Character, Venice, Aspens

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• You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu.

  Del Howison

  Venice, Malibu, Walking

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• These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.

  Alan Watts

  California, San Francisco, Venice

  Alan Watts (1997). “Zen & the Beat Way”, Tuttle Publishing

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• We went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one of them saying it was very hard work telling people they were going to lose their everlasting souls if they didn't shape up. I pictured people sitting on the beach listening to this sweaty man all dressed in black telling them they were going to burn in hell & them thinking this was good fun, these scary stories this guy was telling them & afterwards, they'd all go home & eat mango & fish & they'd play Monopoly & laugh & laugh & they'd go to bed & wake up the next day & do it all again.

  Brian Andreas

  Fun, Hard Work, Home

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• Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!

  Bill Fitch

  Leadership, Sports, Player

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• During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Wall, Military, War

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• Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

  Manny Farber

  Directors, Eternity, Lancaster

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• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Running, Workout, Fun

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• There's a sweet nirvana, Stirring on a jazzy, North Beach night

  William Henry Irwin

  Sweet, Night, San Francisco

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• Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

  Martina Navratilova

  Country, New York, Spring

  MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”

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• Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.

  Wilbur Ross

  Team, Weekend, Play

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• I was 19 when I first auditioned for 'American Idol.' I'd never been on an airplane; I'd never been outside of my hometown, except to go to Myrtle Beach. I'm 22 now. I'm learning a lot about life, and it's all in front of the cameras.

  Kellie Pickler

  Airplane, Idols, Cameras

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• It's like — I don't know, sometimes it's like chasing a pretty girl on the beach. And things I never thought I could do... I can do.

  Ryan Adams

  Girl, Sometimes, Chasing

  "MySpace - Easy, Tiger Description". Interview with Stephen King, May 2007.

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• I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

  Tracy Chapman

  California, Woods, Able

  "Without Further Ado, Singer Tracy Chapman Returns". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 20, 2009.

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• Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning,
  We will come back to earth some fragrant night,
  And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending
  Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white.
  We will come down at night to these resounding beaches
  And the long gentle thunder of the sea,
  Here for a single hour in the wide starlight
  We shall be happy, for the dead are free.

  Sara Teasdale

  Death, Night, Sea

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• I've read all the books, I've watched all the films and now, thanks to the glory of home gaming, I've even kind of experienced it: I've landed on the beaches of Normandy, I have successfully held Pegasus Bridge and I've disabled German tanks with stolen Panzerfausts. I have fought in Italy, France and North Africa and if I had a Euro for every virtual life I've lost I'd be able to build a replica of Hitler's bunker in my back garden.

  Tom Dunne

  Book, Home, Garden

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• My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

  Dani Shapiro

  Rose, Wish, Pieces

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.60, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!

  Gabrielle

  Work Out, Skins, Tolls

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• I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Ocean, Blessing, Blue

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.561, Library of America

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• If I want to get a taste of beach culture, I'll fire up my season 2 DVD of 'Beverly Hills, 90210.'

  Diablo Cody

  Fire, Dvds, Beverly Hills

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• Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Dog, Islands, People

  "Save the Satos" by Juliana Hatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2010.

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• And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,—the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Spring, Rain

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we can’t see. Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.

  Rumi

  Powerful, Roots, Spirit

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