Coast Quotes

• We sailed for more days than I knew how to count, sometimes hugging the mainland coast, sometimes passing from one island to another over the waves. The summer weather blessed us with clear skies and tame waters. We did have a couple of times when we had to put in to shore quickly to wait out a thunderstorm. I think Zeus didn’t want our quest to become too comfortable.

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Blessed
  • Passing
  • Count

• The Coast Guard only has about a couple dozen helicopters and they have rescued about 700 people already. Hopefully these boats can be put into place quickly. There's not much time to do these kinds of things if you want to save lives.

  

  John Metcalf
  • Couple
  • Hopefully
  • Guard

• The north coast of Brittany is eaten into bays from which the sea retreats to considerable distances, and is fringed with reefs and islands. It is a favourite resort of Parisians throughout its stretch, from Dinard to Plestin.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Sea
  • Favourite
  • Coast

• I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Coast
  • Gulf
  • Louisiana

• It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Country
  • Hills
  • Riding

• I knew I couldn't live in America, and I wasn't ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City... It was tolerant. It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn't.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Move
  • Embrace
  • Moved

• I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Government

• I think it demonstrates their effectiveness, ... It makes you realize they are critical at moments like this, as we have seen off the coast of Maine.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Moments
  • Effectiveness
  • Coast

• But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

  

  William Cowper
  • Heaven
  • Sail
  • Oar

• There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • America
  • Reason
  • Spirit

• I just feel that the East and the West are two different worlds. I sometimes get saddened when I see that very few writers of color are published or reviewed in East Coast presses and magazines.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • World
  • Different
  • Sometimes

• It's right there along the coast. That's why it's extremely important that people heed and monitor the situation.

  

  Craig Fugate
  • Situation
  • Monitor
  • Heed

• There are a lot of things about having money that are perceived to be cool but that aren't. Maybe if you're a CEO jerk who likes going coast to coast by himself in a G4, then that's fine. But that's not me. And it never will be.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Money
  • Cool
  • CEO

• I must recommend you to be particularly careful on the coast, and not to rely too much on the friendly disposition of the natives. All accidents which have yet happened there, arose from too much confidence in the Indians.

  

  John Jacob Astor
  • Confidence
  • Coast
  • Recommend

• I talk with Gary [Johnson] every other day, we're on different coasts usually but we keep in touch and - yeah, no I do not agree with that release.

  

  William Weld
  • Different
  • Agree
  • Gary

• A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Condition
  • Fighter
  • Coast

• Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Fire
  • Losing
  • Kindles

• These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

  

  Steve Finley
  • Mind
  • Safety
  • Vessel

• I grew up surfing on the north coast of New South Wales, and on most of the beaches, women never wore tops. When we were 10 or 11, me and my mates couldn't drive, so they'd take us surfing and then sit on the beach topless and read a book. I don't know if I quite saw them sexually, but there was physical intrigue.

  

  Simon Baker
  • Book
  • Beach
  • Surfing

• It would be like a weed whacker going up the coast

  

  Craig Fugate
  • Weed
  • Coast
  • Going Up

• No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Kind
  • Myth
  • Roof

• If just a few of you would step up and be like Jonathan ... as you step out in faith, you know what's going to happen? There'll be people like Saul who'll say, "God's doing something through that guy, God's doing something through that girl. I want to be a part of that.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Steps

• I think I was just trying to coast and you can't coast and try and win at the same time, you know? It'll be three years now since those wins, but the last couple of years I've just really been trying to put my miles in, get them up there to 80 miles a week, 90 miles a week and put the work in again.

  

  Carrie Tollefson
  • Trying
  • Win
  • Put

• There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Basketball
  • Coast
  • One Direction

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