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Quotes About Surf

Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days.
~ Stephen Collins
I love Florida. I love the beach. I love the sound of the crashing surfers against the rocks.
~ Emo Philips
I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, thats the reason I live here.
~ Eddie Money
I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.
~ Don Winslow
Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of their relationship with their product and the ocean.
~ John Van Hamersveld
Live your life like the waves, don't bother about the obstacles and go on, but always carry forward the believers who want to surf with you.
~ Siddharth Astir
For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.
~ Eve Babitz
Seabird tracks scattered about the surf's edge like pine needles after a brisk wind.
~ Haruki Murakami
Bashfully I dropped my shirt onto the sand and stood naked but for my sagging trunks. Glenn, never having seen anything quite this grotesque and singular on an Australian beach, certainly nothing still alive, snatched up his camera and began excitedly taking close-up shots of my stomach. Bizeet, bizeet, bizeet, bizeet, his camera sang happily as he followed me into the surf.
~ Bill Bryson
I started the motor, let it idle for a minute. Then I pointed the nose toward St. Pete and Coquina Key. It was a little after 11:00 when I rolled down the boulevard on the island. A huge moon bathed Coquina Key in silver light. White surf broke against the beach, and out in the water, moon lays lay in a great
~ Talmage Powell
The Beach Boys set the bar for pop sunshine more than 40 years ago, and the genre hasn't changed that much since. Surfer Blood's 'Floating Vibes' rounds the usual bases with an upbeat attitude, and the string swells closing the track are a must, but the band manages to infuse all those old sounds with fresh energy.
~ Anthony Fantano
I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.
~ Ryan Sheckler
Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.
~ Janet Echelman
He'd learned in recent days, though, that rather than drown in uncertainty it was best to surf right over the top of it.
~ Terry Pratchett
There was no moon, but I could hear the surf a few yards in front of us. I spread my filthy cord coat on the sand for a pillow, then fell down and went to sleep.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
~ John Hughes
I definitely tried to skateboard in middle school, and being from San Diego, surf and skate culture is a big, prevalent thing. But I was not that good - I was kind of a chubby kid and didn't totally master skating.
~ Kyle Mooney
Miami's my favorite art fair. I even surfed there one year.
~ Richard Phillips
Much of the market is mindlessly indexed. That means it is all beta. The knowledge is leaching away in the surf of noise and rapid trading.
~ George Gilder
Sydney is the most amazing city. The food and the beautiful beaches are fantastic, and all that surf and sunshine make you feel unbelievably relaxed.
~ Ronan Keating
If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The South Pacific is memorable because when you are in the islands you simply cannot ignore nature. You cannot avoid looking up at the stars, large as apples on a new tree. You cannot deafen your ear to the thunder of the surf. The bright sands, the screaming birds, and the wild winds are always with you.
~ James A. Michener
Somewhere in heaven, you're on a live video Web site for God to surf.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.
~ Michelle Rodriguez