Greg Noll Quotes

#1. It took me longer to get through this site, than to get outside at Waimea.

Greg Noll

#2. Don't live life by default.

Steven Redhead

#3. I'd love to say something heroic. I'd love to say we made history. But basically it was a bunch of guys parked around the Bay there, and somebody grabbed a board and went surfing, and it looked so good the rest of us guys said, 'Hey, we got to get in on this.'

Greg Noll

#4. The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.

Joseph Stiglitz

#5. I didn't want to be like a punch-drunk fighter, going around and reliving the big moment ...

Greg Noll

#6. As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

N. Scott Momaday

#7. Can't you just be like the rest of us, normal and sad and fucked up and alive and remorseful?

Miriam Toews

#8. He laughed. 'I thought you said you weren't scared of her.'
'I said I wasn't nervous, and I'm not nervous because I know not to do anything stupid, like make out, for example, in front of my grandma.'
'My fingers touching your fingers is making out?

Jessica Martinez

#9. One key lesson learned from mapping the genome is that access to a rough initial map proved crucial to developing more detailed maps of small individual human differences.

Gary F. Marcus

#10. When you have no preconceived notion of what you are good at, you are open to life's many possibilities.

Kamaria G. Powell

#11. Sigh for me, night-wind, in the noisy leaves of the oak. / I am tired. Sleep for me, heaven over the hill. / Shout for me, loudly and loudly, joyful sun, when you rise.

Wallace Stevens

#12. If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest ... she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

Ned Rorem

#13. We grew up quickly, surrounded by guys eighteen and older, in their prime. They lived to surf, drink, raise hell and score heavily with women. I saw these guys going up and down the coast on surf trips, drinking and bagging girls, and all I could think of was 'What a neat life!'

Greg Noll

#14. I've been abducted and probed in the anus.
On purpose.

Tom DeLonge

#15. I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

Abraham Lincoln

#16. Mankind's biggest tragedy is apathy. The settlement with inequality, wars, and madness is the mirror of it.

Stephan Attia

#17. Fear of failure impedes adequate self-identification

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

Laurence Fox

#19. It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to then assuage them with new products.

Michael Pollan