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Quotes About Seaside

At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.
~ John Banville
This is being written in another seaside cottage on another coast. Gin and whiskey have bitten rings in the table where I sit.
~ John Cheever
the seaside life and the life of travel made me realise that the theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings than actors, and with fewer actors than situations.
~ Marcel Proust
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.
~ Unknown
I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.
~ Janet Flanner
the Isle of Wight, with occasional visits to
~ Unknown
the South Brooklyn seaside neighborhood was now showing signs of finally succumbing to the real estate developers. As the taxi wound through funky little side streets, I spotted a billboard advertising the IKEA warehouse located just off the Gowanus Expressway. Wine bars and condos wouldn't be far behind.
~ Nancy A. Collins
In the lowlands around Lake Superior weather fronts, with their attendant changes in pressure, gave her headaches. Not so the mountain storms. Cracking thunder and flashing lightning filled the air with ozone till it tingled in the lungs, rejuvenating body and spirit much the same as the air at the seaside or near waterfalls.
~ Nevada Barr
Les vagues déferlaient sur la digue, se brisaient et venaient lécher les vitres du bar en grandes gerbes d'écume mousseuse. On se serait cru dans une bagnole pendant le lavage automatique.
~ Unknown