Top 100 Surfer Quotes
#1. He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold peace of indifference. Now that events forced him to open himself to the world again, he was swamped by emotion as a novice surfer was overwhelmed by each cresting wave.
Dean Koontz
#2. Huge waves that would frighten an ordinary swimmer produce a tremendous thrill for the surfer who has ridden them.
Oswald Chambers
#3. Robert De Niro's sort of like a surfer: he doesn't really force anything. So if he catches the wave, or something spills out - to watch a guy be a force at what he does. He has a good worth ethic.
Paul Dano
#4. She didn't look like a Willow Queen. Of course, I'm not sure what exactly I expected - maybe something akin to Glinda the Good Witch. But this woman looked like Surfer Girl Barbie.
Richelle Mead
#5. I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model.
Christie Brinkley
#6. I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.
Mickey Rourke
#7. I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.
Tullian Tchividjian
#8. I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.
Kelly Slater
#9. The other day a young Internet surfer asked me why I preferred using a pencil instead of a computer. The principal reason, I told him, was that I liked chewing on the end of my pencil. A nasty habit, but it helps me concentrate. And I find it extremely difficult to chew on a computer.
Ruskin Bond
#10. Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
Sam Palladio
#11. Growing up, I used to go to an inlet to lay out and try to meet all the surfer guys.
Charlotte McKinney
#13. Caine erupted in disbelieving laughter. Yeah, that'll do it. 'I'm just a kid, Your Honor!' Hah. They'll have to find a few scapegoats, and guess who it will be? You and me, surfer boy. You and me.
Michael Grant
#14. A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were.
Frederick Lenz
#15. As an ex-footballer, sometimes surfer and wannabe rock star, Quentin had been fucked by cheerleaders, surfer girls and groupies, but he had never, ever been fucked like that.
Ros Baxter
#16. 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
#17. I just like boys who are good-looking, really! I like people who are tall with a good sense of style. My faves are the indie look, the smart look or the surfer look.
Pixie Lott
#18. It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.
Natalie Imbruglia
#19. Across all countries and cultures surfers are connected not by nationality, religion, politics, age ... but by their experience riding waves. This is a powerful experience both in the waves themselves and inside each surfer.
Shaun Tomson
#20. 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
#21. Jacob Woodward had been a professional surfer with an impressive reputation for ten years until he'd
Noelle Adams
#22. So he was a sweet-talking, cross-dressing, fortune-telling ... surfer?
Gwen Hayes
#23. Try Galactus and Silver Surfer fusing together in the MC2-verse weird.
Larry Gent
#24. Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along.
E.B. White
#25. My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
Yahoo Serious
#26. I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.
Baba Kalyani
#27. When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.
Alec Baldwin
#28. Oh, he was definitely doable. Did Hawaiians have the saying "Save a surfboard, ride a surfer"?
Gina L. Maxwell
#29. He also wasn't sure where to go to avoid running into some type of surfer gang. He'd seen Point Break and while he suspected it was nothing but Hollywood bullshit, he didn't exactly want to find out the hard way he was wrong.
Marie Sexton
#30. There's been so much media about me being a surfer dude and a lot of other jobs. I guess it's time to prove myself, to let the people know, heck, I've a brain.
Kato Kaelin
#31. I'm a pretty good snowboarder but a terrible surfer.
Cory Monteith
#32. A crowd began to gather round to watch the Heat begin.
They soon would learn which one would earn the famous Golden Fin!
The boards were tied to dolphin guides that pulled them like a sleigh
to what they called The Channel, every surfer's Dream Highway!
J.Z. Bingham
#33. I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.
Teddy Sears
#34. A lone surfer, barely floating above an empty ocean.
That's what it feels like in my soul."
--Kenna, Flame (Fireborn #1)
Mari Arden
#35. I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It's not all about competing and being the best. It's more about having fun and just doing what you love.
Bethany Hamilton
#36. I'm just a surfer who wanted to build something that would allow me to surf longer.
Jack O'Neill
#37. Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish.
Rob Lowe
#38. My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.
Cary Fukunaga
#39. I consider myself almost a Californian at this point, because I've been here long enough. Obviously, when I first came to the land of blond-haired, blue-eyed surfer types, I was the sardonic, sarcastic, liquor-swilling, chain-smoking, dark-haired, dark-eyed guy from New York.
Reid Scott
#40. I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.
Liev Schreiber
#41. American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated.
Khaled Hosseini
#42. I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.
Marguerite Moreau
#43. I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.
Jolene Blalock
#44. It is cool to see that the fashion world has really taken to 'Instagram,' but, again, it is one of the many examples of many communities, whether you are a chef, a skateboarder, a surfer, a skier.
Kevin Systrom
#45. I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.
Clive Sinclair
#46. My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism.
Vinessa Shaw
#47. So we live in an accelerating possibility curve. Perhaps we can't control it, but we can learn to ride it like a surfer on a wave or a bird on a thermal, to use its power to take us where we want to go - to live in uncertainty and yet act with confidence.
Dewitt Jones
#48. I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.
Chris Weitz
#49. It's rare when you're actually making a movie and it feels like you're watching a movie in the theater. You feel like a surfer in a wave, catching the wave, going for it every time, there's electricity in the room, it doesn't feel like acting, you ride the wave.
Jon Lovitz
#50. The Russian drove. New York turned in his seat to make sure I wasn't peeking. He should have been a surfer. His face was full of masculine prettiness and immensely likeable. Which, by horror's law of inverted aesthetics, made me sure we were being taken to our deaths.
Glen Duncan
#51. I just like guys who have an edge to them. But it could go either way. Like, I have been into the surfer blond frat guys, and then there's definitely a thing where I like the dark, mysterious bad boy.
Ashley Tisdale
#52. I think it's just really made me appreciate life more. I've known people die before that and I was really rattled by it but when it hit so close to home ... it was just so different. I just thought about what I really wanted to do. I want to be a pro surfer and that's what I'm going to do.
Mick Fanning
#53. I'd blurted out the question only to keep him from noticing that I was working my hands free, but the Warden behind me, some young brown-haired surfer dude, yelled a warning. "She's getting loose!"
Narc.
Rachel Caine
#54. I became third in the U.S. as a junior pro surfer.
Greg Cipes
#55. For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf.
Kelly Slater
#56. I was introduced to skateboarding through my father. He was a surfer back in the 50's & 60's in Hawaii, where my parents grew up. They later moved to California and I was born. Skateboarding was the thing for surfers here in California in the 60's and my Dad immediately made me a homemade board.
Christian Hosoi
#57. 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
#58. Fun fact: You may hug koalas in the Australian state of New South Wales, but not in Queensland. So ... if you didn't hug your koala nice and tight before you got here to Sydney, you're going to be shit out of luck until we go back to Surfer's Paradise.
Elle Lothlorien
#59. I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like any other surfer, I try to read the ocean. It's always changing and moving - doing its own thing - so you need to learn how it works and how to position yourself.
Bethany Hamilton
#60. No surfer wants to be the photographer, especially when the waves are good.
Nick Woodman
#61. The first time I almost died was surfing: I got hit on the head with a board. I went under and started swimming until I hit the bottom of the ocean. I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going the wrong way. Do I have enough air to get back up?' If you're a surfer, you know the feeling.
Robert David Hall
#62. Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy ... the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
Barbara Kingsolver
#63. 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
#64. The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#65. The team we had, the Hobie Vita-Pakt Super Surfer team, you know, the Hilton boys were on there, Conrad Hilton's grandkids, and they were really good. After being around those kids, I could ride a little. Do a 360, some kick-turns, stuff like that.
Hobart Alter
#66. It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.
Benicio Del Toro
#67. No, 'Point Break' for me - growing up on the beaches of Sydney as a surfer, it was kind of the movie that we watched every week. For me to be Johnny Utah, I'm beside myself.
Luke Bracey
#68. I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!
Ariana Grande
#69. We play in the ocean every day but for some reason we don't make as much noise about the environment as we should. I believe the average surfer needs to do a lot more to become a greater catalyst for change
Mark Price
#70. Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.
37 Signals
#71. Surfing also teaches quality . I will wager that it is not the number of waves that makes a session memorable for any given surfer, but that one beautiful wave that he or she waited for ... and rode all the way the way to shore.
Shaun Tomson
#72. I'm like a surfer right now. I'm just surfing the wave. Except that I can't swim, so I'm on the board trying to hold on tight.
Shaggy
#73. I'm a channel surfer when it comes to radio, a little bit of everything.
Kevin Fowler
#75. I do feel a kinship for sure. I admire those guys who've won hat-tricks like Andy, and obviously Kelly who's won seven, that's amazing stuff. I think the average surfer thinks it's amazing. The guys who win our championships, they're so amazing.
Mark Occhilupo
#76. Gerry Lopez was a famous surfer back then and his board had a lightning bolt in the in the middle, so my Dad made me a surf/skateboard with a lightning bolt on it.
Christian Hosoi
#77. Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in the afternoon, and run into a fire at night. What could be more interesting than that?
Caroline Paul
#78. I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.
Becky G
#79. The surfer screamed something about bad mushrooms and paddled away from us as fast as he could.
Rick Riordan
#80. I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.
Andy Warhol
#81. As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath.
Don Winslow
#82. I smashed my tailbone and couldn't sit for five years, and I broke my clavicle because I thought I was a great surfer, and of course, I could be a great snowboarder, too. Man, was I wiped out!
Dick Dale
#83. When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.
Kelly Slater
#84. 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
#85. What was "walking on water," if it wasn't Bible talk for surfing? In Australia once, a local surfer, holding the biggest can of beer Flip had ever seen, had even sold him a fragment of the True Board.
Anonymous
#86. 'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a female presenter on TV, in which case you're ready for the knacker's yard at 35.
Terry Wogan
#87. In 2008, 'Surfer's Journal' published 'The Next Wave' image with an article.
John Van Hamersveld
#88. There were pictures on the walls, all of them dime-store prints of Jesus. In all of them Jesus had blue eyes and wore pale blue robes and had long blond hair and a neat blond beard. He looked more like a Malibu surfer than a Jew from two thousand years ago.
Lee Child
#89. As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.
Brandon Boyd
#90. What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.
Paul Fleischman
#92. Thank God for a few free waves.
Miki Dora
#93. 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
#94. If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn't even surf.
Clay Marzo
#96. Traders and Surfers both have to deal with feelings of missing out on the small ones, until the big one comes along. They also have to deal with feelings of staying with the big one.
Ed Seykota
#97. It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.
Jeff Clark
#99. Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
#100. It's not tragic to die doing something you love.
Mark Foo
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