Top 100 Quotes About Surfing
#1. Some of the most profound realizations that I came to about health did not derive from medicine, but derived from surfing.
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
#2. I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.
John Malkovich
#3. It's the way surfing is - you grow up surfing together, and then you're thrown into a heat at Pipe or a world title bout against one another.
Joel Parkinson
#4. For some reason surfing ... I'm not scared of the ocean so the risk doesn't seem as great to me.
John Slattery
#5. I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.
Paul Walker
#6. I remember surfing in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, even Madeira, when local fishermen had never seen a surfboard before, and refused to believe that we could ride a wave on one.
William Finnegan
#7. I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea.
James Cook
#8. When I'm channel surfing, and 'Silence of the Lambs' comes on, I have trouble turning it off. I wouldn't say that about 'Beautiful Mind.' It's a good movie, but I'm much more in awe of what Jonathan Demme did with 'Silence of the Lambs.'
Toby Emmerich
#9. Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.
Brian Wilson
#10. I'm always in Malibu, and I'm a big fan of surfing and stuff. I love the beach. Someday I will live on the beach.
Riff Raff
#11. When I was very young, I got my first opportunity in television with a show called 'Surfing the Menu,' and it was myself and another buddy. We traveled around Australia and we surfed and cooked and drank too much wine. And we had a lot of fun.
Curtis Stone
#12. It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.
George Eads
#13. That's the exciting part about capitalism. It's like surfing, you have to catch the wave. - Martin Peter (aka Vermin Gobsmack)
Jamie Delano
#14. I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives.
Marisa Miller
#15. I did 'Echo Beach,' a surfing drama that meant I was often topless. Next came 'Demons,' and the opening sequence had me in my boxer shorts; and then there was a scene in 'Trinity' with me walking around in boxer shorts. It was only one scene in each series.
Christian Cooke
#16. Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing.
Russell Brand
#19. It's like you're surfing ... The same wave that can be a source of pain can be a beautiful flowing grace and source of power. It's all a matter of how you respond to it.
Trey Anastasio
#20. Surfing is not my strong point. And ... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.
Lori Loughlin
#21. It is pretty clear from Facebook we can enjoy entertaining each other as much as we enjoy surfing the experts' expressions.
Joe Lambert
#22. On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass, and you're looking for good people among all these surfers, you know. Keeping the quality up was always a problem.
Hobart Alter
#23. I come from surfing, and surfing is the worst cool-guy industry of all. I decided long ago to try and kill the cool guy.
Nick Woodman
#24. Surfing, to begin with, was not a "sport." It was a "path." And the more you poured into it, the more you got back from it - he
William Finnegan
#25. Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it really enjoyable to me is that every wave is different ... there's a special, non-repetitive pleasure in it that never gets boring.
Otis Chandler
#26. I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.
Jens Lekman
#27. I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.
Kelly Slater
#28. I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean.
Karolina Kurkova
#29. I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.
Oscar Nunez
#30. I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!
Anika Noni Rose
#32. The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.
Roger Ebert
#34. Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love, and it's a part of me.
Bethany Hamilton
#35. If Reed wasn't planning on meeting me at the beach, I'd be rolling around naked in this bed with you in a heartbeat. I love surfing, but - " his gaze wandered over the thin sheet covering her body before he met her eyes again " - no wave could ever compete with you.
Lisa Kessler
#36. I love the ocean and have a passion for surfing, even though I'm not very good at it. I like getting out there and paddling around.
AnnaSophia Robb
#37. I just love being on the ocean and being creative on the waves and the feeling you get when you're surfing. All around it's beautiful and fun.
Bethany Hamilton
#38. I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.
Chris Carter
#39. I've always thought surfing is a reflection of who you are.
Kelly Slater
#40. Or just don't wear it. Then you can check off the skinny-dipping and kill two birds.'
'I'm not surfing naked, Asher.'
'Rats,' he said.
Wendy Wunder
#41. Thank God for a few free waves.
Miki Dora
#42. I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success.
Anthony Goldbloom
#43. There was no place else she'd rather be than slow-dancing on a beach with the sexiest, sweetest, most attentive man she'd ever been with.
Robin Bielman
#44. There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.
Tom Curren
#45. My sons last summer, they won a trophy from their surfing camp and they came home and went right over to the shelf and put it up next to my Oscar. That's where we put our trophies.
Geena Davis
#46. In my lifetime, I've met a lot of people who never rode a wave, but we share the same consciousness. Surfing is a kind of a state of mind ... I mean, it's a feeling that people have about their life that really, in a way, kind of makes them a surfer.
Gerry Lopez
#47. I work out a lot, but I like to do action sports. A lot of surfing, mountain-biking.
Julia Mancuso
#48. Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life.
The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and weddings and hilarious jokes - fills a minute portion of an adult lifespan.
The rest of life is the paddling: work, paying bills, flossing, getting sick, dying.
Jaimal Yogis
#49. Music is my way to shine back and express positive vibrations for a common healing. It's similar to farming, or surfing, or yoga. Before world peace, we have to have inner peace and music helps us get there.
Jason Mraz
#51. In Gillette's case, they keep surfing along new technology which is fairly simple by the standards of microchips. But it's hard for competitors to do. So they've been able to stay constantly near the edge of improvements in shaving.
Charlie Munger
#52. 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
#53. I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.'
Billy Boyd
#54. 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
#57. Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.
Marc Newson
#58. Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.
Marc Newson
#59. I grew up surfing. My dad probably put me on a surfboard before I could walk.
Luke Bracey
#60. Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.
Julian Baggini
#61. Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.
Tom Araya
#62. I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
Henry Hopper
#63. I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful
Thom Yorke
#64. Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.
Ed Seykota
#65. If you recognize a face while surfing through 200 channels, you will stop and listen. Celebrities give a positive aura and people like them. Their message appeals to people.
Kajol
#66. They wrapped themselves in animal skins and furs which Ford Prefect acquired by a technique he once learned from a couple of ex-Pralite monks running a mind-surfing resort in the Hills of Hunian.
Douglas Adams
#67. Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.
Patrick Swayze
#68. I love fishing and surfing, and I work out every day.
Karl Urban
#69. Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today.
Greg Cipes
#70. Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#71. When I was younger, I used to be a part of the surfing-and-skateboarding community.
Katy Perry
#72. If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn't even surf.
Clay Marzo
#73. I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.
Paul Walker
#74. I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.
Dean Karnazes
#75. It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.
Joel Parkinson
#76. For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. ... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go.
Margaret Atwood
#77. Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well.
Shane Snow
#78. In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.
Frederick Lenz
#80. He softly kissed her lips. I'm going to rock your world tonight, and then I'm going to do it again. Only different. You're going to come undone, Sophie, every which way you can, and i won't stop until you do.
Robin Bielman
#81. With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.
Neil Young
#82. All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that.
Brody Jenner
#83. Sometimes I wish I had every different sort of board that I could just bring out for this surf when I feeling like surfing this board. I love riding old single fins and twin fins.
Mick Fanning
#84. There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.
Corbin Bernsen
#85. For me surfing is just something that I love to do. I grew up surfing, is sort of like a family requirement. I can't imagine my life without it. But I am not defined by it, nor is my music. They are very separate.
Tristan Prettyman
#86. Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.
Bethany Hamilton
#87. I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.
Etgar Keret
#88. I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.
Jason Lee
#89. The glass wall behind must have blown out as well, four stories of lethal shards surfing the roar of air and fire.
Marcus Sakey
#90. There's something people find hilarious about dogs surfing and dancing and talking in the movies. I think it's nice for people - I think it's wish fulfillment - to see animals talking.
Owen Wilson
#91. I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing ... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
Manny Montana
#92. No doubt there is a Scandinavian wave. I guess everybody is just surfing their wave until it breaks and hoping it won't be too soon.
Tobias Lindholm
#93. While some more passive forms of leisure, such as watching TV or surfing the Internet, are fun in the short term, over time, they don't offer nearly the same happiness as more challenging activities.
Gretchen Rubin
#94. Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day.
Bethany Hamilton
#95. I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
Rafael Vinoly
#96. Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.
Lynn Blackmar
#97. I think somebody like Wes [Anderson] has a very good sense of style and is original. I think my sense of style got a little bit better after I was exposed to you guys at Valentino. Because I'm just in Hawaii and Malibu; it's just kind of T-shirts and surfing-type stuff.
Owen Wilson
#98. When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.
Jon Foreman
#99. I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.
Julia Mancuso
#100. I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.
Liam Hemsworth
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