Beach Side Sayings

#1. What makes a home home? Animals, and a little bit of clutter.

Chevy Chase

#2. I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can't make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can't make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.

Holly McPeak

#3. The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.

Bryan Burrough

#4. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens - finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#6. At Pebble Beach, even on your good shots, you've got to hit it to the correct side of the holes to save pars.

Dustin Johnson

#7. Women shouldn't deny their dark side. Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful. You'll have to approach them. Drink a glass of wine with them, take them for a walk on the beach, examine yourself.

Tori Amos

#8. Will there be traitors, Father?" "There are always traitors. Trust nobody.

Ariana Franklin

#9. Black met black on the distant horizon, the stars alone distinguishing sky from lake. On the sand below, Silver Beach glittered at the water's edge while on the north side of the river the lighthouse's beacon signaled safe harbor.

Erin Farwell

#10. Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Diane Lane

#11. You are nothing but trouble."
"Maybe you need some of that in your life.

Avery Flynn

#12. Most problems can be solved through cake.

Joanne Harris

#13. The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go.

Shilpa Shetty

#14. When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

Natalie Coughlin

#15. I can't do this with you again and then watch you go," she admitted, her breathing ragged. Her skin tingled all over where their bodies touched and it felt as if it were over a thousand degrees in the house.

Samantha Chase

#16. So can I take pictures of you sometime? ... Not here. Not like this. At this abandoned building I just discovered by the beach. At sunset. I have an idea.' He peeks around the side of the camera. 'And not with your clothes on. Only fair.' His eyes are bright as the devil's. 'Say yes.

Jandy Nelson

#17. All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other people's backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala