Quotes About Big Sur

#1. For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.

Henry Miller

#2. One's destruction is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things. (Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch)

Henry Miller

#3. Big Sur is a fascinating place. It is one of the true power places in America.

Frederick Lenz

#4. It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'

Henry Miller

#5. We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.

Jeff Ament

#6. Barcelona is one of the best cities in the world. I love it there. I love Big Sur. It's stunning and you get a therapeutic experience there. The drive up the coast is one of the most beautiful I've ever done. Also, Hong Kong. I could easily live there!

Meghan Markle

#7. The tribes were Berkeley, North Beach, Big Sur, Marin County, Los Angeles, and the host, Haight-Ashbury.

Gary Snyder

#8. When I work in San Francisco doing stand-up, I usually schedule it for July, and we'll drive up the coast and camp in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Big Sur, and we'll just camp our way up the coast, and then we'll get to San Francisco and hang out there for four days.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#9. I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.

Trent Reznor

#10. Back in the cabin I light the fire and sit sighing and there are leaves skittering on the tin roof, it's August in Big Sur
I fall asleep in the chair and when I wake up I'm facing the thick little tangled woods outside the door and I suddenly remember them from long ago

Jack Kerouac

#11. Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Carter Burwell

#12. Every time I come, I'm still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert ... I love it.

Theo James

#13. O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what He did: He might even be drunk and not noticing what he went and done tho of course that's not true

Jack Kerouac

#14. Now I can't wait to write my next play.

Scott Caan

#15. Jesus used the word easy only once. But it wasn't about our circumstances. The same Jesus who said, "I am the door" (John 10:7, KJV) also said, "My yoke is easy" (Matthew 11:30).

John Ortberg

#16. Bridgeport?" Said I.
"Camelot," Said he.

Mark Twain

#17. Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.

Jack Kerouac

#18. Sicily has suffered 13 foreign dominations from which she has taken both the best and the worst. The sequence of different cultures has made Sicily a fascinating place, quite unlike any other.

Andrea Camilleri

#19. Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

Adam Michnik

#20. Maybe it's a kind of freedom too. To stay home.

Peter Ho Davies

#21. Is Virgin you trying to
fathom me

Jack Kerouac

#22. I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Colin Powell