Beach Quotes - Page 22

• Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Doctors, People, House

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• I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.

  Nelson DeMille

  Home, Gold, Special

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• The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Genius, Wave

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• It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.

  Benicio Del Toro

  College, Careers, California

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

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• The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.

  Janet Malcolm

  Grieving, Self, Water

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• If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

  Jenny Eclair

  Track, Bars, Want

  "Me and my travels" by Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• New York is like a vacation - no beach required.

  Sean William Scott

  New York, Vacation

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• I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

  Miranda Richardson

  Lying, Alaska, Whales

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• When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Lying, Cities, Answers

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• Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.

  Helena Christensen

  Beautiful, Islands, Atmosphere

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's really intimidating to go on the beach in a bikini.

  Helena Christensen

  Goes On, Bikinis, Intimidating

  "Helena Christensen: 'Like Any Woman, I Worry About My Body'". Interview with Emma Sibbles, fashion.telegraph.co.uk. July 13, 2011.

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• I'm a good Canadian girl. I miss all that good stuff. I miss tobogganing and I miss snowboarding, but I've also learned to surf and I've become a water baby which I used to be relatively terrified of the water and I kayak all the time now and I'm able to run year round on the beach which you can't obviously do in Canada.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Girl, Running, Baby

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 30, 2006.

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• I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.

  Amanda Burton

  Taken, Home, Holiday

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• Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

  Hope Davis

  Summer, New York, Husband

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

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• I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

  Jerry Doyle

  School, Flying, Kind

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

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• My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.

  Britt Ekland

  Summer, Father, Holiday

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• Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Book, Fire, Hair

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• I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Song, Husband, Ocean

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• Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

  Maggie Grace

  Hawaii, Los Angeles, Garments

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• I like to run on the beach. It's a different exercise as well when you're in sand, a different kind of training.

  Charlie Bewley

  Running, Exercise, Training

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• In my beach shack, we'll be alone. In my beach shack, I'll make you feel at home.

  Elvis Presley

  Home, Dating, Shack

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• Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.

  Randy Newman

  Baby, Boys, Musical

  Song: I Love L.A

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• I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.

  Puff Daddy

  Taken, Thinking, Europe

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• I kinda like Florida. It's hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn't Florida the way people think of Florida. It wasn't south Florida. But you could still easily drive to Panama City Beach and get a little bit of Redneck Riviera if you want that. Get some airbrushed T-shirts on, and you're done.

  Tony Hale

  Redneck, Thinking, Cities

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• I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.

  Naomi Judd

  Lying, Ocean

  "Naomi Judd Gets a Radio Talk Show on SiriusXM" by Chris Talbott, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 1, 2012.

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