Quotes and Sayings about Beach
"I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked."
- Rosanna Arquette
(Related: Beach, Being, Water)
"One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful."
- Oksana Baiul
(Related: Architecture, People, Beach, Favorite, Vacation, Water)
"Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing."
- Billy Baldwin
(Related: Beach, Clients)
"And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach."
- Travis Barker
(Related: Music, Beach)
"They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach."
- Luigi Barzini
(Related: Food, Beach, Deserted, Famous, Oil, Pleasure)
"Build thee more stately mansions."
- Amy Marcy Beach
"Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse."
- Stephanie Beacham
(Related: Hearing, Nothing)
"I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party."
- Stephanie Beacham
(Related: Party)
"I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn."
- Stephanie Beacham
(Related: Language)
"One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people."
- Stephanie Beacham
(Related: People, Children, Grace)
"I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else."
- Stephanie Beacham
(Related: People, Listening, Right)
"I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that."
- Stephanie Beacham
(Related: Shyness, Talking)
"I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing."
- Stephanie Beacham
(Related: Dancing, Thinking)
"But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf."
- Stephanie Beacham
(Related: Work, Being)
"The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach."
- Henry Beston
(Related: Nature, Beach, Ocean, Rain, Sound, Wind, Wood)
"On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Skin, Sun)
"I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar."
- Danny Boyle
(Related: Beach)
"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: Beach)
"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."
- Dick Bruna
(Related: Beach, Sleep)
"I've been to nudist beaches, like twice. But honestly, I just don't want to see these people naked. Most people look better with their clothes on, and the few that don't, look better than you, so why bother?"
- Peter Buck
(Related: People, Clothes, Want)
"I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic."
- Brooke Burke
(Related: People, Romantic, Wine)
"I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach."
- Yancy Butler
(Related: Beach)
"The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot."
- Rose Byrne
(Related: Funny, Artists, Beach, Diversity, Want)
"We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both."
- John Callahan
(Related: Technology, Beach, Libraries, Now, Old, Pressure, Right)
"We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title."
- Eric Cantona
(Related: Winning, Beach, Now, World)
"I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much."
- Eric Cantona
(Related: Beach, Football)
"I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach."
- Eric Cantona
(Related: Beach, Coach, Soccer)
"For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration."
- Thomas Carper
(Related: Inspiration)
"I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes."
- Dana Carvey
(Related: Idea, Church, Beach, Lady, Party)
"The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back."
- Christo
(Related: Islands, Workers)
"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Fight, May, Surrender)
"When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left."
- Camille Claudel
(Related: Idea, Beach)
"In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there."
- Stephen Collins
(Related: Wife, Daughter, Beach, Day, Friends, Running, Water)
"Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster."
- Cyril Connolly
(Related: Home, Beach, Today, Words)
"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
- Norman Cota
(Related: Being, Gentlemen)
"But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes."
- Cindy Crawford
(Related: Peace, Beach, Moments, Quick, Quiet, Tea)
"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
(Related: Europe, Months, Thinking)
"Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging."
- Matt Damon
(Related: Business, People, Actors, Choices, End)
"I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert."
- Doug Davidson
(Related: Time, People, Beach, Fact, Now)
"When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey."
- Ray Davies
(Related: Beach, Fishermen, Mind, Sea, Song)
"I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses."
- John Deacon
(Related: Thought)
"You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches."
- Frank Deford
(Related: Society, Animals)
"The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!"
- Martin Denny
(Related: Beach, Friends, Night, Play, Right)
"I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses."
- Bo Derek
(Related: Dream, Horses)
"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Age, Time, People, Beach, Day, Driving, Drugs, Golf)
"I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach."
- Roma Downey
(Related: Home, Beach)
"I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art."
- Fran Drescher
(Related: Art, Beach)
"Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water."
- Karen Duffy
(Related: Beach, Illness, Water)
"My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall."
- John Dyer
(Related: Home, Love, People)
"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."
- Loren Eiseley
(Related: Time, War, Beach)
"If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face."
- Michael Eisner
(Related: Business, People, Beach, Mind)
"I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain."
- Enya
(Related: Love, Discipline, Listening, Walking, Writing)
"The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Related: Country, World)
"For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses."
- Mark Foley
(Related: Example, Golf, Wildlife, World)
"The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods."
- John Foster
(Related: Beauty, Music, God, Beach, Boys, Moods, Reflection)
"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
(Related: Beach, Guilt, Now, Problems, World)
"They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette."
- Leif Garrett
(Related: Beach, Boys)
"My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year."
- Mickey Gilley
(Related: Failure, Beach, Months, Open, Years)
"A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about."
- Newt Gingrich
(Related: Beach, Beginning, Freedom, Years)
"I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual."
- David Ginola
(Related: Beach, Fun, Soccer)
"In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form."
- George Grey
(Related: Beach, Country, Islands, Sea, Variety)
"Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing."
- Natalie Gulbis
(Related: Beach)
"Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore."
- Corey Hart
(Related: Father, Beach)
"I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night."
- Amanda Holden
(Related: Money, Time, Beach, Friends, Night, Running, Sea)
"We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook."
- Katie Holmes
(Related: Beach, Order, Restaurants, Summer)
"I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas."
- Anjelica Huston
(Related: Cancer, Deep, Ocean)
"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
- Philip Johnson
(Related: Beach, Hate)
"Of course The Beach Boys will be camp."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Beach, Boys, Will)
"You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?"
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Beach, Boys, Day)
"Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Beach, Boys, First)
"If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches."
- Ric Keller
(Related: Act, Drilling, Will)
"What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working."
- Victor Kiam
(Related: Life, Time, Beach, Day, Television)
"I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun."
- James Lafferty
(Related: Beach, Fun, Gifts, July)
"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(Related: Lie, Beach, Open, Reward, Sea, Waiting)
"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(Related: Beach)
"If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas."
- Mike Love
(Related: Beach, Boys)
"The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it."
- James A. Lovell
(Related: Beach, Moon, Paris)
"It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea."
- Charles Lyell
(Related: Fact, Now, Scotland, Sea)
"They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring."
- James MacArthur
(Related: Pretty, Trees)
"My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, 'Max, you get the dogs. I'll talk to the hot blondes.'"
- John C. McGinley
(Related: Son, Beach, Dogs, Ocean, Talk)
"We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing."
- John Mellencamp
(Related: Music, Beach)
"Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Beach, Harmony, Old)
"There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Example, Property)
"I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores."
- Jeff Miller
(Related: Drilling, Exploration, Rights, Oil, State, Want)
"I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach."
- Rebecca Miller
(Related: Art, Nature, Beach, Beer, Class, Drinking)
"I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here."
- Eddie Money
(Related: Love, Beach, Reason)
"To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude."
- Jeanne Moreau
(Related: Beach, Solitude, Sun)
"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: Truth, Lie, Beach, Oceans)
"Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago."
- Mary-Kate Olsen
(Related: Food, Music, People, Weather, Years)
"They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable."
- Barry Pepper
(Related: Time)
"I've never been one for sitting on beaches."
- Piper Perabo
"If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation."
- Daniela Pestova
(Related: Beach, Rest, Vacation)
"I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight."
- River Phoenix
(Related: People, Character, Beach, Dogs, Football, Play)
"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me."
- Anna Quindlen
(Related: Change, Life, Beach, Darkness, Mind, Night, Writing)
"Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together."
- Tommy Rettig
(Related: Beach, Boys, Party, School)
"It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all."
- Miranda Richardson
(Related: Beach, Childhood)
"We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous."
- Andy Richter
(Related: Love, Trying)
"Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk."
- Geraldo Rivera
(Related: People, Beach, Risk, Want)
"It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie."
- John Robinson
(Related: Opportunity, Beach, Film, Fun, Moments, World)
"In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails."
- Dana Rohrabacher
(Related: American, Beach)
"I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside."
- Mark Ruffalo
(Related: Life, Time, Beach, Growing up, Ocean)
"Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties."
- Jose Saramago
(Related: Home, Beach, Conscience, Saying, Vote)
"We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs."
- Graeme Le Saux
(Related: Time, Beach)
"The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up."
- Connie Sellecca
(Related: Beach, Being, Reality, Right, Water)
"I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach."
- Lisa Snowdon
(Related: Experience, Beach, Holidays, Sun)
"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."
- Anne Spencer
(Related: Beach)
"I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach."
- Jason Statham
(Related: Beach)
"I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Beach, Paris)
"You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach."
- Jim Steinman
(Related: Beach, Gold)
"If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water."
- Parker Stevenson
(Related: Time, Beach, Water)
"We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month."
- Michael Stipe
(Related: Beach, Feet, Fish, Ocean, Water)
"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."
- James Stockdale
(Related: Beach, Practice)
"I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach."
- Amber Tamblyn
(Related: Time, Beach, Venice)
"In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year."
- Keith Thibodeaux
(Related: Time, Home, People, Beach, Christmas, Fact, Horses, Kids, Play, Summer)
"On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week."
- Carrot Top
(Related: Beach, Key, Play, School)
"The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land."
- Arnold J. Toynbee
(Related: Lie, Cities, Land)
"We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about."
- Rachel True
(Related: Beach, Energy, Wonder)
"I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: People, Beach, Houses, Isolation)
"A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course."
- Mike Weir
(Related: Beach, Girls, Golf)
"Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me."
- Larry Wilcox
(Related: Nature, Beach, Being, Birds, Camping, Games, Running, Singing, Walking)
"I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach."
- Walter Jon Williams
(Related: Beach, Want)
"I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments."
- Carl Wilson
(Related: Food, Money, Business, Beach, Boys)
"There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love."
- Dennis Wilson
(Related: Love, Beach, Being, Boys, Will)
"The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group."
- Dennis Wilson
(Related: Music, Beach, Boys)
"I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs."
- Dennis Wilson
(Related: Beach, Boys, Day, Will)
"It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim."
- Dick Wolf
(Related: Movies, People, Beach, Pretty)
"Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time."
- Roy Wood
(Related: Power, Time, Beach, Boys, Sound)
"I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not."
- Peter Wright
(Related: People, Beach, Clothes, Now)
"Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'"
- Steven Wright
(Related: Babies, Baby, Beach, Day, Vacation)
"I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it."
- Steven Wright
(Related: World)