Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. Taylor

You are always working to try and make everything better and faster in racing. Bringing Jan on board for Long Beach will be a good addition. Jan is extremely fast and he and Max have driven together before at Le Mans. I think it will be a really good combination for this race.

With the 15-foot waves, we did get some beach erosion and high water spray on Route 5.

We watched a pattern develop. Twenty years ago, seniors went to the beach after the prom and then to someone's house for breakfast. From that, it's turned into a weekend-long orgy that every year has become incrementally more excessive.

Michael Caine

Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach - and didn't need glasses

Hill Harper

My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What's beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.

Charlie Kimball

Gone are the days when you could lie on a beach between races and still be in good enough shape to compete. Gone are the days when simply wearing a brand on your firesuit was enough to justify the marketing expense of an Indy Car. Racing an Indy Car is only about a quarter of my life as a racing driver.

We build a big enough beach that nobody needs a sea wall. In fact, some people have removed their sea walls.

David Baldacci

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

David Ogilvy

I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.

Danny Boyle

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

Danny Boyle

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

Dani Shapiro

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

Frank Norris

We're testing the water here, and Broadway at the Beach is extremely interested.

Luke Bryan

I grew up in a family where everybody had a good time and we were at the lake every weekend and going to the beach and living a good life. It's been the way we always lived, and my wife's the same way - enjoy every day and have fun.

Brian Wilson

The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I'm very proud of them.

Colbie Caillat

I try to keep myself busy. I always hang out with my family and friends and my dogs. Go to the beach. Go swimming. Go get exercise. Go on a hike.

Cormac McCarthy

And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The sea hath no king but God alone.

Daphne du Maurier

...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized upon them too. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came.

Daphne du Maurier

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.

Cyril Connolly

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Cyril Connolly

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

Daniela Pestova

If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.

Danielle Steel

I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

Corrie Ten Boom

When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.

Steve Scott

We used to have a beach here; we don't have a beach anymore. It's high all the time -- not just this storm; all the storms.

Amy Bloom

My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one - but all my kids have to be there, because they are all lobster-lovers. Making a bolognese sauce over pappardelle for my husband on a winter evening, because he loves my bolognese sauce and it's his comfort food.

David Brown

When you have a day like this, this is the place to be ... the perfect weather for a beach day ... a nice holiday.

Richard Brooks

We're trying redefine Virginia Beach more as a luxury destination.

We've definitely had some significant beach erosion. The longer the storm sits, the worse the damage.

Karen Hughes

We've worked at Indian River Inlet several times and once at Gordon's Pond in Rehoboth. The kids enjoy going back to the planting spot ... to see how their beach grass is doing.

We don't want to close it down. It's the only place that the public has to go to the beach in this area.