Dennis Quaid Quotes

Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Dennis Quaid

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• Golf
• Surfing

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• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Trying

• There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Stinks

• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Get

• I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Magic

• My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Different
  • Taken
  • Golf

• Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Great
  • Surfing
  • Kiteboarding

• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • Success
  • Golf

• I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• Donald Trump did not appear by magic.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Magic
  • Trump
  • Appear

• I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Play
  • Movies

• I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Better

• It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Up
  • May
  • Nice

• The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Poetry
  • Magic
  • Seems

• At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Why
  • Side
  • Yes

• It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Want
  • Amazing
  • Feel

• Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Different
  • Black
  • Doubt

• The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Time
  • Great
  • Book

• I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said anything, just made one of those strange Scottish noises at the back of his throat like someone gargling.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Wonder
  • Golf
  • Numbers

• When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Worry
  • Company
  • Cake

• Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Religion
  • Search
  • Meaning

• The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • Picture

• I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • President
  • Conflict
  • Wars

• Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Magic
  • Golf
  • Surfing