Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Quick

The sheeplike nature of travel - being on a beach with thousands of other people is not my idea of fun. I also don't like being a tourist because you don't know what's really going on in a country.

We are grateful to automotive archaeologist Ricky DiBernardo of Long Beach for providing these special cars for this town event, ... We are also happy to welcome hundreds of classic cars to Town Park Point Lookout.

Andy Goldsworthy

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Alistair Cooke

When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. They will take out this volume from its secret hiding place and they will say: "There is no question, son, that these were unholy places in an evil age. Unfortunately, I had a whale of a time."

Alistair Cooke

To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which though it's never self-conscious, amounts o a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.

Ann Brashares

Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

Amanda Burton

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.

Amanda Burton

I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that.

A. S. Byatt

They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.

Adam Shankman

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

Tim McDonald

Pebble Beach is the mecca of golf courses. It is one of the top three or four courses in the United States. For golfers, it's a real feather in their cap.

Jay Johnson

Our kids have been talking about Laguna Beach the last couple of weeks,

Panama City Beach was the smart guys - they have an engineered beach. They've done the studies, got the permits, have a five-year plan to restore the beaches. We tried to get that done, but, unfortunately, we didn't. I just hired a beach project manager.

Palm Beach County does not want to create wars between cities.

Rick Wright

Our vision is that the service providers at the beach will become ambassadors for downtown businesses. There will be no effort to contract with service providers that directly compete with downtown businesses.

Ian Brown

Sure, of course. My boys know I'm famous. They see me on the TV but they'd rather watch 'The Simpsons.' But I'm definitely a cool father. I take them to the zoo and the beach and the countryside and to buy them sneakers. I play soccer with them. I just taught them how to play chess.

Sure, I wish I was with my family. But I'm not going to complain about being on a beach when it's 80 degrees.

William Daley

Someone said he should smile more in the practice session. On the walk on the beach with a number of (advisers) they had specific ideas on issues they thought their counterparts in communities would respond to.

Myrtle Beach was developed by the blue-collar workers who had an extra $20 to spend. The new lifestyle is looking for people with $2,000 to spend. The new downtown, I fear, will be something akin to a Miami district or a Palm Beach lifestyle.

Many couples choose not to marry so that they may preserve their social security, pension, and veterans benefits. And marriage is not an option for tens of thousands of gay and lesbian Palm Beach County couples in committed relationships.

I think we just want to be on a beach and around cute girls.

I think that the competition is very solid. That, coupled with the great fields and the weather (makes it appealing). And the beach doesn't hurt either.

It isn't going to get any bigger. We're limited on space. Hey, Cocoa Beach is a small town. Now we're focusing on increasing the quality of surfing, boosting the prize purse and creating more family fun.

It is like closing all the gas stations in Palm Beach County because the price of gas is too high. It just doesn't make any sense.

It is just a once-in-a-lifetime experience. You can go to the beach any day,

Jessica Simpson

I went on the South Beach Diet for it. I trained for six days a week, two-and-a-half hours a day. I was determined to look good in those shorts.

I was about 200 yards out, just past the second sandbar, ... And when I heard the scream, I turned around and saw one of the girls swimming towards the beach frantically and the other one had disappeared and there was a big dark spot where she used to be in the water.

People who stopped at the gates of the Casino before now can traverse through, and when they get to the Asbury side, see a vibrant, lively, beach community.

Andy Brown

Cassy Peerson is a young woman who lives in a car on a beach in an unnamed California town and works as a mermaid at a strip club.

Certainly a site at the north end of Palm Beach County is better than a site to the south.

Bruce Gordon

Hopefully this settlement will encourage every restaurant, store and gas station in Myrtle Beach to remain open this year for Black Bike Week, just as they are during Harley Week.

We met on the beach and I offered him a game of tennis. He refused at first but when I offered to play doubles together, he agreed. You know the rest. Meeting Yeltsin simply changed not only my life but also had a profound effect on Russian tennis.

I think the decision to prevent him going to any beaches is a bit beyond the pale.