Top 100 Quotes About Surf
#1. Men in high levels of government seldom surf.
Rita Rudner
#2. 'Hollywood Don't Surf!' is really about how Hollywood's superficial view of surfing culture has influenced popular culture and the story of what happened when real surfers tried to change that.
Greg MacGillivray
#3. These days I travel so much it's hard to get into a routine. When I'm on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I'm home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date.
Curtis Stone
#4. I box a lot, I spin and I surf. I try to mix it up. I obviously have to be in shape 24 hours and the gym can be super monotonous, so I just get outside and try to make it fun so my body doesn't get bored.
Marisa Miller
#5. The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.
John Zorn
#6. I don't like to channel surf. You guys like it, don't you. You guys like to change the channel. We like to change you.
Wendy Liebman
#7. I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.
Saoirse Ronan
#9. He'd learned in recent days, though, that rather than drown in uncertainty it was best to surf right over the top of it.
Terry Pratchett
#10. I love physical sunblocks with zinc. When I used to surf, I'd sometimes tuck a bottle of sunscreen into my wet suit sleeve - when you're in the water having a great time, you're not thinking about running out to put on more sunblock.
Carolyn Murphy
#11. Remember Boogie Rule #6 (Don't watch local children boogie killer surf and say hey they can. do it , I can do it,) You like die?
Robert Wintner
#12. Every day is different when I'm home, but mainly I just surf. There's no nightlife or shopping, so it's pretty mellow but really nice to come back to after a trip or an event. If you're traveling, you're all stressed out, then you get to Kauai, and nothing matters anymore.
Alana Blanchard
#13. I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days ... all I want to do is get home to my baby.
Zachary Knighton
#14. People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.
Jackie Speier
#15. It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
Ben Mendelsohn
#18. I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.
Jack Johnson
#19. Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.
Crystal Gayle
#20. I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a crowd.
Jon Foreman
#21. That's why our TVs are brimming with so much hot man-on-pan action. You can't channel surf for long without seeing turkey getting stuffed over and over until they finally cut to the gravy shot.
Stephen Colbert
#22. For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.
Eve Babitz
#23. I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.
Keri Hulme
#24. My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.
Ryan Sheckler
#25. Today I am embracing any adversity in my life. Today I will surf the waves of negativity and see how it is getting me to where I'm going next.
Betsy Henry
#26. I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.
Leslie Moonves
#27. Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.
John Fogerty
#28. She carefully placed the little crab back in the sand and nudged it toward the surf. Run for your life, Pinchy. I've seen the way this man eats.
Olivia Cunning
#29. Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.
Jonatan Martensson
#30. My stomach didn't let me read, eat, watch TV, or surf the internet.
Al Macy
#31. I'm just a glutton for spas and messages. And I love to surf and hike.
Carolyn Murphy
#32. Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again
S-E-R-F music.
Jello Biafra
#33. The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.
Dick Dale
#34. One day during filming, George Clooney was wearing his surf shirt and board shorts, and my six-year-old daughter was in the background as an extra, playing in the sand - playing herself. She and Clooney suddenly looked equally Hawaiian, equally related to the place I call home.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#35. I think people in general that don't surf, have a fascination with it. Its definitely much more than a sport or activity, its a way of life. There is a culture that surrounds it and I think people are intrigued by that.
Tristan Prettyman
#36. For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer.
John Van Hamersveld
#37. So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more thought. In what season of the year do we find ourselves - I'm speaking for a moment in terms of the physical world - wading through things? Surf. Kelp. Books. Summer.
Roy Blount Jr.
#38. Three most important things in life, surf, surf and surf.
Jack O'Neill
#39. I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!
Bethany Hamilton
#40. I want to sit and be less career oriented. Snowboard, dirt bike, mountain bike, surf. Just be human. To me, that's an important part of life.
Jason Lewis
#41. Throw your children in the surf and let them get used to it. They have to learn all about rips and tides and swimming between the flags and all that sort of stuff. I know that sounds ridiculous but it's true.
Eric Bana
#42. Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
Kary Mullis
#43. If we do not play in the dangerous surf, we will drown in puddles.
Michael D. O'Brien
#44. I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you're born in Hawaii, you surf. If you're born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you're born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo.
Nacho Figueras
#45. Vast skies in the Australian desert
waves that don't move
we slide surf glide like condors
Martin Stepek
#46. You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.
Jesse Ventura
#47. Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol' freakin' leopard shark ... I'm looking at him and I'm thinking, 'OK, he won't hurt me.'
Timothy Olyphant
#48. I didn't have a cell phone because I never needed to play video games or surf the Net, or exchange nude photos with a congressman. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 137 chapter 19
Dean Koontz
#49. Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it's just because they love doing it and they love each other and that's the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV.
Ben Gibbard
#50. I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!
Karlie Kloss
#51. I surf; that's how I stay healthy - not because of the gym.
River Viiperi
#52. I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf. Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I've gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, 'Why not? Now's the time.'
Aimee Mann
#53. My throat tightened when I noticed a small tattoo of an origami rose on his upper arm. . .
"Hey, Lenzi," he whispered, barely louder than the surf.
"Rose," I said as our lips met. "My name is Rose.
Mary Lindsey
#54. When the surf is really good, it's hard for me to concentrate on work. So I really have to watch when and where I surf - I won't get anything done if I get the fever. Then it's like I come into work and I'm wet and waterlogged and ready for lunch.
Chris Carter
#55. I surf more now for other people than myself. I feel a lot of support from people wanting me to do well, and I feed off that. I can send a positive message to people from what I do.
Kelly Slater
#56. We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.
David Brower
#57. Somewhere in heaven, you're on a live video Web site for God to surf.
Chuck Palahniuk
#59. I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.
Don Winslow
#62. Thought I might try out waves. Do You surf?"
Ollie's eyes opened wide "Yes. The net.
John Wiltshire
#63. I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity.
Caroline Winberg
#64. This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is b.s. Not only do you kick him - you kick him until he passes out - then beat him over the head with a baseball bat - then roll him up in an old rug - and throw him off a cliff into the pounding surf below!!!!!
Michael Scanlon
#65. In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.
Jess Weixler
#66. Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of ocean surf. i almost recognized the melody, but i could not be sure, it slipped like a cool and silken wind from my grasp.
Chaim Potok
#67. I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that.
Brit Hume
#68. Her pace is furious as she walks along the beach, the surf competing with the noise in her head.
Anita Shreve
#69. I know when I've been surfing I've got a sense of level of calmness to me, and when I hit the ocean, even in its presence, at the shore, and especially by a powerful surf, I've been put in my place as a person.
Nick Carroll
#70. I would have liked to experience more of the heptapods' worldview, to feel the way they feel. Then, perhaps I could immerse myself fully in the necessity of events, as the must, instead of merely wading in its surf for the rest of my life.
Ted Chiang
#71. You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#72. At times he swears that he's going to go straight, but mostly he feels like a drowning man in love with the surf.
A.S.A Harrison
#73. But I do love the world, I whispered to the empty room. I love its small ones, the things beaten in the strangling surf the singing bird which falls and is not seen again, the lost ones, the failures of the world.
Loren Eiseley
#74. Kabat-Zinn writes, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." OBAMA
Will Schwalbe
#75. Hear the leaves applauding
Hear the wind hurrahing
Hear the surf guffawing
The ways of old are dead
The queen has lost her head
Shannon Hale
#76. Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.
Janet Echelman
#77. I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus ... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!
Lee Ann Womack
#78. Surfing's a more profound kind of sport than it looks. When you surf, you learn not to fight the power of nature, even if it gets violent.
Haruki Murakami
#79. even tragedies can turn into triumphs. SURF
Nick Vujicic
#80. Seabird tracks scattered about the surf's edge like pine needles after a brisk wind.
Haruki Murakami
#81. I'm not a runner. I do not like running. I love to swim. I love to surf. I do not like to run.
Laurie Holden
#82. You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.
Alysha Speer
#83. So loving is the universe, so joyful, so determined to give us everything we need and to love us and show us the way to live, too, that we are beaten to the ground, boiled by God's waves, as we play in the surf.
Sophy Burnham
#85. Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Florence Nightingale
#86. New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime.
Brandon Cruz
#87. Sssh says the ocean
Sssh says the small wave at the shore
sssh not so violent, not so proud, not so remarkable.
Sssh says the surf crowding around the outcrops, washing the shore.
Sssh, they say to people, this is our Earth, our eternity.
Rolf Jacobsen
#88. Can you really learn to knit from a diagram? Try it. Do you want to learn to ski or surf by yourself? You could drown or run into a tree.
Chris Raschka
#89. I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.
Craig Venter
#90. I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.
Kathleen Hanna
#91. I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it.
Raymond Bonner
#92. I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.
Brian May
#93. I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play tennis, and golf - but surfing is definitely my favorite.
Alexander Ludwig
#94. If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
Ricky Williams
#95. I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'
Joel Edgerton
#96. Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#97. If you're a surfer, you just want to surf. You don't know if anyone's going to see you, and you don't really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.
Jerry Seinfeld
#99. Stay in one place too long and the tide can overwhelm you. Ride the tide, surf the waves, stay on top of the changes.
Ron Kaufman
