Coast Quotes

• I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Father
  • Band
  • Musician

• If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Country
  • Chance
  • Born

• If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • Something
  • Coast
  • Stayed

• 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

• California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.

  

  David Swanson
  • Influence
  • California
  • United States

• I'm looking at a place on the coast, ... I was born next to the ocean and I'd like to live next to the ocean.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Place
  • Ocean
  • Coast

• 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

• When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Mind
  • East
  • Midwest

• My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.

  

  Todd English
  • Favorite
  • Coast
  • Clams

• No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Black

• We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.

  

  Murray Kempton
  • Particular
  • Pursuit
  • Heroin

• Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Force
  • Boat
  • Germany

• And all Niki really has to do now is coast

  

  Murray Walker
  • Coast

• Thackwell really can metaphorically coast home now

  

  Murray Walker
  • Coast

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