Surf Quotes - Page 7

• We grew up quickly, surrounded by guys eighteen and older, in their prime. They lived to surf, drink, raise hell and score heavily with women. I saw these guys going up and down the coast on surf trips, drinking and bagging girls, and all I could think of was 'What a neat life!'

  Greg Noll

  Girl, Drinking, Thinking

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.17, North Atlantic Books

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• To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.

  Alan Watts

  Beautiful, Depressing, Ocean

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it's just because they love doing it and they love each other and that's the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV.

  Ben Gibbard

  Thinking, Mtv, Play

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• I think there are quite a few new Instro/Surf groups that are really great. The Mermen are good and there doing something different. The Space Cossacks, Penetrators, The Fathoms, I really like The Falcons from Canada, Mike Beddoes is a really fine guitar player. I like Nokie Edwards of The Ventures, who gave me a guitar lesson once when we were playing opposite them in 1962 at The Rose Garden Ballroom in Pismo Beach. That's were The Impacts started and got signed to Del Fi in 1962.

  Merrell Fankhauser

  Beach, Player, Garden

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• Consumer habits have changed dramatically. People have gotten used to getting the news they want, when they want it, how they want it, and where they want it. And this change is here to stay. Despite all the dire reports about the state of the newspaper industry, we are actually in the middle of a golden age for news consumers who can surf the Net, use search engines, access the best stories from around the world, and be able to comment, interact, and form communities.

  Arianna Huffington

  People, Community, Age

  "The Debate Over Online News: It’s the Consumer, Stupid" By Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2009.

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• I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Way, Wave, Plans

  "Anthony Kiedis- Person of the Year: Rolling Stone: 12/14". Rolling Stone Magazine Interview, rhcprock.free.fr.

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• Sometimes I wish I had every different sort of board that I could just bring out for this surf when I feeling like surfing this board. I love riding old single fins and twin fins.

  Mick Fanning

  Feelings, Surfing, Wish

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• I'm trying to teach my girlfriend how to surf. But I just end up yelling at her the whole time. Because I don't know how to surf.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girlfriend, Yelling, Trying

  Twitter post from Mar 06, 2010

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• I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read, and just get away and surf.

  Manny Montana

  Quiet, Get Away, Introverted

  Source: collider.com

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• I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf. Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I've gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, 'Why not? Now's the time.'

  Aimee Mann

  Girl, Interesting, Why Not

  Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2009.

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• Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'

  Greg Proops

  Swans, Piglet, Lenses

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• You gotta chill and relax, and release, meditate, and breathe and walk, and ski and surf, and bask and sunbathe and relax and sing and love and laugh and nurture yourself, and eat good stuff. And find better and better feeling thoughts and practice them until they become the norm. And then everything that life has caused you to become must manifest into your experience.

  Esther Hicks

  Practice, Laughing, Feelings

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• The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wave

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• I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are.

  Eddie Vedder

  Water, Playing Music, Elements

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• I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.

  Etgar Keret

  Fall, Writing, Giving

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

  William Finnegan

  Sports, White, Surfing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One Christmas, I just begged my parents like "I want to try to surf on a real board instead of these boogie boards and rafts" and they got me one.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Real, Parent, Trying

  Source: www.hamptons.com

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• As soon as I stood up on that hard surfboard, I went so fast and it was such an incredible feeling that I was obsessed, and I fell in love with it, so I never stopped. So, that's how it all started, being around people at the beach and other surfers and then finally getting an actual surf board, and falling in love with that feeling.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Beach, Falling In Love, People

  Source: www.hamptons.com

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• [The Surf Lodge performance] is sort of like an annual thing.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Annuals, Performances, Lodges

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• The Surf Lodge has got to be seven or eight years I've been playing there, every summer. It's definitely one of the most fun gigs of our whole East Coast tour. The beautiful atmosphere, amazing stage overlooking that beautiful lagoon - it's just a really hip, cool spot to play. We always look forward to it, every year.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Beautiful, Summer, Fun

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• I just think that's the most amazing thing to be able to go to places like Japan and surf all day and then that night, play music. It's never been one of those things that's disrupted the flow of one and other, they've just enhanced one and other. It's incredible. It's beautiful that I found these two things that help each other out.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Beautiful, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.hamptons.com

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• There is nothing in the world like the rush of going down a mountain and harnessing all that energy and all that gravity and using it for your own pleasure. There's just nothing like skiing. It's very similar to surfing. I don't surf, but it's very similar to surfing. There's just nothing like it. It's amazing. You have to try it.

  Steve Bellamy

  Surfing, Trying, Mountain

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We can open up our computers and Skype with someone, and we see them. It's like looking through a window. And we can surf the internet through our phones, and it's like our consciousness is far away. Or we can step through a airplane door and be in another continent a few hours away. So technology feels, to me, like the doors sort of already exist, at least emotionally.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Airplane, Technology, Doors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've had the same friends I've always had. I mean, I've lost a few over the years. Hate to use the word "success," but I don't know what else to say, but some people are more affected by that than others. I've had the same core group of friends that I've always had. We're surfing, so that definitely keeps you grounded. Just when I think I'm cool because we're playing these massive shows or having some sort of commercial success, I can always be reminded how small I am when I try to surf a wave that's a little bit out of my league, and I just get pummeled.

  Aaron Bruno

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

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• What the studio didn't understand is that surfing is about a billion times more dangerous than skydiving. They would not allow the boys to skydive, but they allowed us to surf in pipeline in Hawaii. Nine-hundred foot waves. So we're out there in the middle where the greatest surfers in the world surf. They have these long lenses on from the beach, so they can't see anything. They are just shooting our faces in the Point Break.

  Lori Petty

  Beach, Boys, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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