Coast Quotes - Page 5

• I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

  Howard Coble

  Workout, Military, Exercise

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• I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

  Charlie Chaplin

  New York, Real, Thinking

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• I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Kings, New York, Hands

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

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• I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

  Bob McDonnell

  Virginia, Energy, East

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• On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.

  Apolo Ohno

  Running, Couple, Ice

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• Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Determination, Years, Administration

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• But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".

  Joseph Conrad

  Mean, Thinking, Air

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.15, Xist Publishing

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• I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Talking, Variables

  "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with… Bill Parcells". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. July 28, 2013.

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• I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

  Paula Poundstone

  Alaska, Taught Us, California

  "Thanksgiving Is Not Just for Leftovers" by Paula Poundstone, November 26, 2008.

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• California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

  Eric Ripert

  Winter, Florida, Weather

  "Q & A With Eric Ripert: His New Book, More Fun With PBS + Le Bernardin's Numbers". LA Weekly Interview, www.laweekly.com. January 14, 2011.

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• Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

  Robert Bolt

  Country, Cutting, Blow

  A Man for All Seasons act 1 (1960)

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• I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

  Tucker Max

  Kentucky, Atlanta, West Coast

  "Q&A: Bad Boy Author Tucker Max Makes a Movie and Survives, So Far". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Faith, Inspiration, Responsibility

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill, he vowed to her that someday he would try to tell the world her life story. 'But why?' she asked humbly. 'I'm no one, just a girl from the coast' 'But you are everyone, Grandma,' the young Pramoedya told her. 'You are all the people who have ever had to fight to make this life their own.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Girl, Mother, Grandma

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Willem Samuels (2002). “The girl from the coast: a novel”, Hyperion Books

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• When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Artist, People, Pittsburgh

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• Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.

  Wiz Khalifa

  New York, East, Pittsburgh

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• Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Effort, Arguing

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• I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.

  Colin Farrell

  California Coast, California, Littles

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• I talk with Gary [Johnson] every other day, we're on different coasts usually but we keep in touch and - yeah, no I do not agree with that release.

  William Weld

  Different, Release, Yeah

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Ideas, People, East

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• I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

  Diane Lane

  East, World, Journalism

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• Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Mean, Reality, Race

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Thinking, People, East

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• There are two kinds of people,’ she’d said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those who ride the waves.’” Tears spilled down my cheeks, and my voice cracked. “‘Ride the waves, baby, and live. Live.

  Gena Showalter

  Baby, Two, Voice

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