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Quotes About Surf

While 'The Endless Summer' poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the image grew out of my relationship with Rick Griffin and our deep relationship to surf images.
~ John Van Hamersveld
The two things that I miss most when living out of Australia are the bush and the Pacific coast, especially fishing in the surf at night!
~ Peter C. Doherty
I feel like surf films are something I go back to for some balance - to reset myself as a filmmaker. They're something I'll always gravitate towards.
~ Taylor Steele
Many beach locales offer surf lessons, and you get a different perspective of the ocean when you're out on the water.
~ Katie Lee
I love the influence of surf culture on fashion in L.A.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
I met Xavier Rudd at a surf festival in England.
~ Ben Howard
Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.
~ Raymond Chandler
Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form itself on the edge of consciousness.
~ Raymond Chandler
We drove away from Las Olindas through a series of little dank beach towns with shack-like houses built down on the sand close to the rumble of the surf and larger houses built back on the slopes behind. A yellow window shone here and there, but most of the houses were dark. A smell of kelp came in off the water and lay on the fog. The tires sang on the moist concrete of the boulevard. The world was a wet emptiness.
~ Raymond Chandler
The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom.
~ Scott Holman
soulsThat we might break these molds And free our restless souls Start to believe That we can rise above Our pettiness and love Like we ain't loved before Free on this earth As the surf that rolls And crashes on the shore And hey now don't run and hide Your little heart away If it's gone We'll sure never find it Pining for lost innocence Tantalisingly I saw Our shadows moving through the door Traces from a different time When I was yours and you were truly mine All mine
~ David Gray
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
~ Roy Blount, Jr.
Without mindfulness, we let our old, habitual behaviors and emotions cause us to wipe out in the tumultuous surf.
~ James Van Praagh
I like to be close to water and the ocean, particularly. I love to get out and body surf. I like mountain biking, too.
~ John McEnroe
Our project goal was to push the boundaries of VR technology to show what a surf trip feels like from the first-person perspective. I'm excited to share this. It's pretty incredible knowing my mom can now experience riding a 20-foot wave.
~ Taylor Steele
To acknowledge that the biggest wave in the world might be a shore break off a little Portuguese town no one has ever heard of flies in the face of what passes for reason in the surf world.
~ Garrett McNamara
Writing is pretty flexible work, don't you think? If you want to surf, you just have to get a lot done when the waves are lousy. That's what I'm always telling myself, anyway - write while the surf's down!
~ William Finnegan
I've been soulsearching: why do I do this? Because I don't really get the rush on these waves, and I don't surf for records. It's more to do with my love for Nazare - I want to bring attention to the town.
~ Garrett McNamara
No need to shoot the breeze with Nixon when the surf was so great
~ Dean Karnazes
Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.
~ Elizabeth Knox
She's in because her brother, Hunter, was a god here before he gave up being a counselor to run a surf clinic in Malibu.
~ Jen Calonita
It's hard for me not to play on the West Coast. I love it out there.
~ John Daly
Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.
~ Amy Poehler
But the sound frightened Isaac. The thudding, he knew, was caused by great deep-ocean swells falling upon the beach. Most days the Gulf was as placid as a big lake, with surf that did not crash but rather wore itself away on the sand. The first swells had arrived Friday. Now the booming was louder and heavier, each concussion more profound.
~ Erik Larson