Quotes About Soul Surfer

#1. I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

Dennis Quaid

#2. I learned to surf for 'Soul Surfer.' Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Dennis Quaid

#3. I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost.
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Anthony Bourdain

#4. What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

Joseph Wambaugh

#5. I eat more chicken any man ever seen,

Howlin' Wolf

#6. Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

Lord Chesterfield

#7. And now here he was, completely alone. He found this situation both euphoric (he could scratch himself and no one was looking; no one was judging him--no one!) and unsettling. (What if he choked?)

Cynthia Hand

#8. I wouldn't change what happened to me because then I wouldn't have this chance, in front of all of you, to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms.

Soul Surfer

#9. Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

Salman Rushdie

#10. Life is a lot like surfing ... When you get caught in the impact zone, you've got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Bethany Hamilton

#11. One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Maya Angelou

#12. Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.

Gordon Strachan

#13. Many at the State Department think its their job, not the Army's, to develop cultural and regional expertise and relationships. In such quarters, the RAF concept looks less like an innovative approach to global risk management than yet another military effort to replace diplomats with soldiers.

Rosa Brooks

#14. He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

Alphonsus Liguori

#15. If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

Erno Rubik

#16. There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

Floriano Martins

#17. A lone surfer, barely floating above an empty ocean.
That's what it feels like in my soul."

--Kenna, Flame (Fireborn #1)

Mari Arden

#18. In fact, the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way, sometimes the other - often in some mix of the two - by most people who live in families.

Lillian B. Rubin

#19. Email is the greatest thing.

Wally Amos

#20. Whilst never actually rebuffing a visitor, he always reared such a wall of reserve that few could think of anything to say to him which would not sound inane.

H.P. Lovecraft

#21. I've learned life is a lot like surfing. When you get caught in the impact zone, you need to get right back up, because you never know what's over the next wave ... and if you have faith, anything is possible, anything at all.

Soul Surfer

#22. A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.

Niels Bohr