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Quotes About Surf

Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea's black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the pale surf appear all down the shore and roll and crash and darken again. When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He obviously just got a haircut, because there's a slim line of white skin between where his tan stops and where the edge of his sun-bleached hair begins, like the curl of surf against a sandy beach.
~ Heather Vogel Frederick
Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf
~ Dan Millman
The clouds were wild in the western heaven, and the wind blew chill from the sea. Far as the shore was, the sound of the surf swept over the intervening moorland, and beat drearily in my ears when I entered the churchyard.
~ Wilkie Collins
She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
~ William Gibson
ocean surf beat on relentlessly
~ David Baldacci
Oftentimes they are seen swimming around the surf zones and can swim very close to the shoreline.
~ Unknown
I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it.
~ Raymond Bonner
If you're going to have an asthma attack in the surf, I strongly recommend you do so in Nantucket.
~ Jennifer Crusie
These days I travel so much it's hard to get into a routine. When I'm on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I'm home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date.
~ Curtis Stone
Although your world wonders me, with your majestic and superior cackling hen Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end And you'll never hear surf music again
~ Jimi Hendrix
I'd most likely be a helicopter pilot, or I'd own a really cool surf hotel somewhere on a beach.
~ Wade Eastwood
Hatred and anger are only scars upon a beach, while love is the rolling surf that ceaselessly smooths the sand.
~ Dean Koontz
Teddy laughed, heard the sound of it carry off on the sweep of night air and dissolve in the distant surf, as if it had never been, as if the island and the sea and the salt took what you thought you had and...
~ Dennis Lehane
THE PIGEONS ON the roof of the boardinghouse made a purling noise, like the sea coming in on a pebbled shore, rolling tiny rounded rocks in the surf.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Surf films should be completely different from a webisode. They should give the viewer different feelings and emotions.
~ Taylor Steele
The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.
~ Lori Lansens
The ocean, throwing up foaming sun-sprays across some nearby rocks, was winter cold. This kind of sunshine and ocean, with the accumulating roar of the surf and the salty, adventurous, flirting wind from the sea, always intoxicated Phineas. He was everywhere, he enjoyed himself hugely, he laughed out loud at passing sea gulls. And he did everything he could think of for me.
~ John Knowles
As for "A Grave," it has a significance apart from the literal origin, which was a man who placed himself between my mother and me, and the surf we were watching from the middle ledge of rocks on Monhegan Island [in Maine] after the storm. ("Don't be annoyed," my mother said. "It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.")
~ Marianne Moore
The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.
~ Unknown
The surreal part was, the surf at Newcastle Beach was cranking, so here I was, on a pristine afternoon, getting sunburnt as hell, the day after I'd been snowboarding in a tiny inland town in Canada.
~ Mark Donaldson
I don't like to channel surf. You guys like it, don't you. You guys like to change the channel. We like to change you.
~ Wendy Liebman
The trembling stars shout down to me, and the life that is in me shouts back. That I know I'm living goes up levels in me like surf rising against the tide marks.
~ Unknown
Or the learn rules for the game the sea otters Play in the surf
~ Michael McClure