Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dyer

I used to spend most of my free time on the beach playing in the rock pools, swimming, flying kites, and occasionally horse riding.

Brian Finnerty

The movie is like a big wave that is going to hit the beach whether we like it or not. ... We're going to try to ride the wave. By riding the wave, I mean using every opportunity we can to tell the world about the reality of Opus Dei and the reality of the Catholic Church.

Dick Catri

Some people think we just show up on the beach and that's it. But it's trade shows, city commission meetings, planning boards. Everything to make it better. Just the pleasure of seeing it all come together makes it rewarding and worthwhile.

Joni Gray

Speaking from the perspective of the Santa Maria and Lompoc valleys and Surf Beach

Ross Lynch

'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work!

Bryan Nelson

Right now we're doing about 15-20 boats a day, and in a couple weeks that will increase to about 30 to 40 a day, ... At Jefferson Beach there are seven heated storage facilities and three cold storage buildings. There's room for a lot of boats.

Chris Hoffman

The school is not in a financial situation to bring up Long Beach Poly. The booster club can do that.

Commissioner Caspersen

I've seen too many 12- and 13-year-old boys drive to the beach or the club for lunch with no turn signals. It's going to take a lot of fun away from the island, but we need this for safety.

John Niven

I spend a fair bit of time in Los Angeles, and there is much I love about the place - the weather, the food, the beaches and the golf. And a few things I don't. Like the way an enormous number of mentally ill people seem to be forced to live on the streets with little or nothing in the way of government assistance.

Tony Kennedy

The terrain is wonderful from a mountain-bike perspective.

David Rosen

These differences are not significant from a forecasting perspective.

Barbara Kingsolver

the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.

Boyd Rice

When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.

Cameron Crowe

Time puts things in proper perspective.

Daniel H. Pink

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more youre conscious of the other sides posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate youll be at taking their perspective.

Eckhart Tolle

The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.

John Ryan

Annexation is the most significant problem from the conservation perspective.

William Snyder

Fletcher's use of perspective also was very accomplished.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Jeff Bridges

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Ellen Bass

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

H. L. Mencken

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

Richard M. Nixon

It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

Joe Nichols

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

Samuel Butler

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Sophocles

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Yoko Ono

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Brian May

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

Amitabh Bachchan

This proves Indians do nothing else but surf the Web.

Mark Ruffalo

I come from a traditional theater background.

William Shatner

I'm surfing the giant life wave.

Raymond E. Feist

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

Roald Dahl

Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.

Kelly Slater

I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.

Kelly Slater

It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.

Paul Walker

I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.

John Wooden

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Chris Hughes

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

Lloyd Bridges

Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.