Beach Quotes

• I say to the paparazzi, 'Fellas, take your shot and go.' It's just they usually find me on a beach.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Beach

• Ten days after my 'one-step' reconstruction, I was on the beach with my daughter.

  

  Jessica St. Clair
  • Daughter
  • Beach

• I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the board.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Music
  • Beach

• I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Beach

• I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • World
  • Writing
  • Powerful

• I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Purpose
  • Lying
  • Beach

• I love to go to the beach or stay at the pool with my girls - enjoy the sun and the water as much as I can, take rides with the bicycles, and spend time with my family.

  

  Bianca Balti
  • Time
  • Family
  • Water

• If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Beach

• I also really loved the sea when I was young, when I lived in Sicily, but unfortunately the sea here has been reduced to a trash dump. It's a horrible pain going to the beach; you risk getting an infection or getting tar all over you.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Pain
  • Risk
  • Sea

• Chasing kids on the beach and sleeping is the closest I come to exercising while in Hawaii.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Kids
  • Beach

• No more cutting grams, and wrapping grands up in rubber-bands, I'm a recovered man, our plans ta discover other lands, suburban places got me seeking for an oasis, cristal by the cases, ladies of all races with dime faces, sex on the white sand beaches of Saint Thomas, though this ain't promised, I'm as determined as them old timers.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Men
  • Cutting
  • Beach

• I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.

  

  Roma Downey
  • Home
  • Beach
  • Malibu

• In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Earth
  • Beach

• There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares?

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Girl
  • Care
  • Class

• During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • World
  • War
  • Military

• Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Childhood
  • Sound
  • Use

• On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.

  

  Carrot Top
  • School
  • Week
  • Weekend

• It's hard to give a career like this up, when I tell my wife I'm going to the office, and it's the beach.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Giving
  • Wife
  • Office

• I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.

  

  Carrie Preston
  • Like
  • Lying
  • To Be

• I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Music
  • I Love
  • Beach

• Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Chance
  • Baby
  • Beach

• Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • Home
  • Political
  • Beach

• One of the clues that I chased was that Dan Cooper, whoever he was, found an old magazine story called "How to Leave Your Life." And followed the directions on how to leave your life, and just went to the beach one day with his wife and kids, and said he needed to go to the bathroom, and went to the restroom at the beach and never came home.

  

  Geoffrey Gray
  • Needed
  • Magazines
  • Bathroom

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