Beach Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 16, 2024
‘Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.’ – Brian Wilson
‘To escape and sit quietly on the beach – that’s my idea of paradise.’ – Emilia Wickstead
‘Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach… it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say ‘What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!” – Steven Wright
‘Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child, or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn’t necessarily have to mean expensive.’ – Aerin Lauder
‘One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.’ – Anne Spencer
‘One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
‘I don’t fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.’ – Mary Roach
‘I’m going to die one day. I know it’s coming for me, too. I’ll be a mountain, I’ll be a stone on the beach. I’ll be nourishment.’ – Mary Oliver
‘The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.’ – Henry Beston
‘I’m a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there’s fresh air. Apart from that, I’m a film addict and a DVD freak.’ – Murray Bartlett
‘I got my first tattoo when I was 19. The one on my shoulder is an eagle. I’d go to the beach, and I’d take off my shirt, and I’d almost feel self-conscious because nobody out there had tattoos except my buddies, the guys who rode motorcycles. American-made bikes, mainly.’ – Lorenzo Lamas
‘I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?’ – Philip Johnson
‘Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.’ – Claude Monet
‘To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.’ – Jeanne Moreau
‘I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.’ – Palmer Luckey
‘There’s an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine’s free, and the harbour’s free, and the beach is free.’ – Russell Crowe
‘You think about the Bahamas, you think it’s this island full of beaches and chilling on the beach, but there’s a lot of freak athletes down there that can play, and a lot of guys better than me who I feel like didn’t get an opportunity like me, but when I got my opportunity, I took full advantage of it.’ – Buddy Hield
‘A simple life is good with me. I don’t need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I’m happy.’ – Yanni
‘Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.’ – Lenny Bruce
‘I love going to the beach and swimming in the ocean. I think it’s so relaxing. It’s also a great form of active recovery. It’s perfect for those rest days when you still want to move a little bit.’ – Eugenie Bouchard
‘I find inspiration for my line of jewelry from traveling and from my lifestyle. I have three collections: New York, Palm Beach, and Paris.’ – Melania Trump
‘I’m a Cancer; I’m music-passionate. I like long walks on the beach.’ – Will Ferrell
‘A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.’ – Henry Grunwald
‘I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.’ – Anna Quindlen
‘I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.’ – Matthew McConaughey
‘The sun shines everywhere, not just at the beach.’ – Brande Roderick
‘Let’s be honest – I have no interest in going to the beach and looking like The Rock.’ – Jacob Elordi
‘Sydney’s most famous beach is Bondi. At its southern end is Bondi Baths, an eight-lane, 50-meter saltwater pool built into the cliffs.’ – Raymond Bonner
‘There’s worse things in life than to put sunscreen on. It means I’m going to work, which is on the beach, which is pretty wonderful.’ – Kerri Walsh Jennings
‘I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.’ – Rafael Nadal
‘When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.’ – Camille Claudel
‘In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.’ – Aurora
‘Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It’s very special to me.’ – Larry Wilcox
‘Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.’ – Loren Eiseley
‘If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.’ – Larry Page
‘If it’s just me on stage telling stories for, like, an hour, that’s great. That’s fine. But like a sandcastle on the beach, it gets washed away at night. It’s so much more powerful if we can all share our narratives and doorstep moments and make us feel a little less alone. I’m just trying to use social media and new media as a way to capture that.’ – Hasan Minhaj
‘I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.’ – Mark Ruffalo
‘I’ve never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach.’ – Jason Statham
‘I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.’ – Antonio Carlos Jobim
‘We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‘Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?’ I said: ‘Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.” – Lou Holtz
‘I became a beach bum.’ – George Best
‘I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need.’ – Rob Gronkowski
‘When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.’ – Sylvia Plath
‘People want to do authentic things. They want to go horseback riding, fishing, shooting or searching for turtle nesting spots on the beach.’ – Philip Anschutz
”The Beach’ novel, in my mind, was, in some respects, subversive.’ – Alex Garland
‘You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.’ – Neil Gaiman
‘I don’t go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.’ – Esther Duflo
‘The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.’ – Jim Lovell
‘I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.’ – Zooey Deschanel
‘If you’re a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that.’ – Amal Clooney
‘Listen: I like my bikinis very small, and I also like, uh, nude-colored bikinis because people double-take – they think I’m naked on the beach.’ – Kate Upton
‘I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.’ – Bruno Mars
‘Often, a seemingly clear clean beach has a huge amount of hidden litter.’ – Ben Fogle
‘Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don’t forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It’s like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain’t right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach.’ – Prince
‘When I grew up as a kid, a part of my life – I grew up in Boston near Revere Beach, at my grandma’s, and she would take me to the beach.’ – Glenn Danzig
‘You go to a beach, you see a lot of plastic. It’s out of the ocean, it stays out of the ocean, so that’s good. But the thing is that in this Great Pacific garbage patch, this area twice the size of Texas, there’s simply no coastlines to collect plastic. So the idea is to have these very long floating barriers.’ – Boyan Slat
‘My perfect day is to get up at 5:30 A.M., jump on my scooter and go to the beach.’ – Goldie
‘I’m in two modes when I’m on Lanai: In engineering mode, I’m trying to find the right place for the reservoir and the desalination plant, and looking at designs for new hotel rooms. The rest of the time, I’m in decompression mode. I’m on Hulopoe Beach, going for a swim, or on my paddleboard surrounded by 100 spinner dolphins.’ – Larry Ellison
‘We’re competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.’ – John Callahan
‘I manage a team, for beach soccer. I’m the coach. Player, coach.’ – Eric Cantona
‘When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the ‘Ghost Rider’ comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn’t get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening – ‘How is this possible, this duality?” – Nicolas Cage
‘I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‘X100PRE’ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.’ – Bad Bunny
‘I love the beach and rock climbing and boxing and nature, so I like to stay away from my phone as much as possible.’ – Millie Bobby Brown
‘When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog – big as a donkey.’ – Ray Davies
‘In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you.’ – Roxane Gay
‘When I first started my graphic design career, and ‘Beach Culture’ magazine, I pretty much ran from the surfer label. It was hard to get people to take you seriously.’ – David Carson
‘My father is Polish, and at 68, he still wears a Speedo to the beach, and he wears regular briefs – so did his father. That was my upbringing.’ – Antoni Porowski
‘I’m really glad I had the chance to live in Jensen Beach and Stuart before everything exploded. I’m always going to be fond of that area. For me, it was a sleepy little fishing town, and it kind of represents what Florida was before the development explosion.’ – Judge Reinhold
‘I would love to go to a restaurant on the beach. And that could be in Miami or that could be in Malibu or Bahamas, Mexico.’ – Christina Milian
‘I don’t know what it’s like to have a typical father figure. He’s not the dad who’s going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he’s such a motivational person.’ – Tiffany Trump
‘Right now I’m living my boyhood dream, which was to play for a European club. The fact that it’s a huge club like Barcelona makes it a tremendous honour. I like everything about the city: the climate, the people. It’s quite similar to Brazil, which helps a lot. There’s even a beach!’ – Neymar
‘I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.’ – Abbi Glines
‘They were heading out to the middle of the bay – the Gulf – that’s another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn’t hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we’d take ’em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.’ – James Stockdale
‘I’d paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I’d go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.’ – Jenny Holzer
‘When the Beatles came in, I really concentrated on making a lot of movies. Those beach films that we did were a lot fun. They hit with an audience that related to what we were trying to do on the screen. That kept me going all through that Beatle period.’ – Frankie Avalon
‘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
‘I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.’ – Claude Monet
‘I was a Beach Boys guy, but I was won over. In ’64, as the radio stations were creating this duel between The Beatles and The Beach Boys, I slowly but surely got won over by the Mop Tops.’ – Ron Howard
‘To be honest, I really can’t lie on the beach for more than an hour.’ – Nirmal Purja
‘I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, ‘I gotta go to Broadway.” – Rita Rudner
‘There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you’re working a few hours a day and you’ve got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you’re okay.’ – Mary Oliver
‘By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame – we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.’ – Mike Love
‘I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn’t, but she always knows where I’ll be. She doesn’t need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.’ – Tom Robbins
‘In Cyprus, our house was right on the beach. I could walk out of our front door, cross a road, and there was the sea.’ – Theo Paphitis
‘I can’t read music. Instead, I’d do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize – out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, ‘Very interesting interpretation!’ I thought I was playing it right.’ – Eddie Van Halen
‘I wish I loved to run, because I’d love to run through Central Park or on vacation on the beach, but I absolutely hate it.’ – Nina Agdal
‘I can’t wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We’d be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can’t wait.’ – Cameron Diaz
‘From the mid-’70s to the mid-’90s, that was the golden age of the beach volleyball mystique. I was absolutely mesmerized by the best players of that time.’ – Karch Kiraly
‘What else is there in life but to accomplish things and to do things? Sure I like to be on a beach on occasion, I like to ski on occasion, but as long as I have the ability to make a contribution, I am going to keep going.’ – Martin Cooper
‘In ‘Hope Never Dies’, Biden attempts to disguise himself with a beach look, hoping that the incongruity of it will allow him to snoop around Wilmington without being recognized. Obama, on the other hand, knows the best way to keep a low profile is to just be himself.’ – Andrew Shaffer
‘It was scary. It’s a public beach that we’re filming on, so there was tons of paparazzi, especially when Pamela would be working. It was absolutely mayhem.’ – Gena Lee Nolin
‘I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there it’s a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. I’m a keen walker, and I love Suffolk’s big skies.’ – Diana Quick
‘I’ve grown up by the beach all my life, and I almost get anxiety if I haven’t been swimming for a couple weeks or a month. It kind of builds up, so I try and get out as much as possible.’ – Flume
‘It goes back to the starfish. That’s when the light bulb really popped over my head. We’d found one on the beach, and I was struck by what astonishing creatures they are, talking with Dad about how they regenerate.’ – Nick Sagan
‘We can’t forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.’ – Isabelle Adjani
‘I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.’ – Wilbur Smith
‘I never thought I would go to Gaza. It’s incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it’s a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there’s this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.’ – Hailey Gates
‘I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the time, but looking back, I realize that my debut into Monaco society should have been better executed!’ – Charlene, Princess of Monaco
‘When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country of our ancestors. Because Haiti is an island, the beach is everywhere. Haitians are particular, even snobby, about beaches.’ – Roxane Gay
‘I like The Four Freshmen, anything with good harmonies, some Beach Boys. I like the girl groups as well, like The Dixie Cups and all that.’ – Alex Turner
”Safe Harbor’ is a state of mind… it’s the place – in reality or metaphor – to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.’ – Luanne Rice
‘If I’m going to live in Sydney, I want to live on Bondi Beach.’ – Leigh Whannell
‘I like a real beach. A crowded one, you know? People, towels, umbrellas. I hate those little private strips of sand you see up in Malibu.’ – Jimmy Kimmel
‘I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.’ – Rosanna Arquette
‘Panama is very close to all the points, six hours from Los Angeles, four hours from New York, 10 hours over to Europe. And I can live on a beach. I just ended up there and I liked it.’ – Angus Macfadyen
‘I could have pigeonholed us and wrote a whole record like ‘Pumped Up Kicks,’ and we would have been this breezy, nostalgic West Coast Beach Boys recreation band. That’s not the type of writer I am. Once I try one style, I move on.’ – Mark Foster
‘I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist – never. We’ll be on stage in wheelchairs.’ – Dennis Wilson
‘When it comes to beach volleyball, we’re playing in 100-degree-plus weather.’ – Kerri Walsh Jennings
‘I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that’s the reason I live here.’ – Eddie Money
‘Florida’s waves are better than Japan. It’s just an hour drive to the beach, but just once a week, I’m able to go to the surfing.’ – Shinsuke Nakamura
‘You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.’ – Pele
‘Look, all the big stars: Do you think that Brad and Angelina randomly got caught on the beach in Africa in the middle of nowhere where they reveal they’re dating? No! These are strategic moves.’ – Spencer Pratt
‘What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.’ – Frank Lowy
‘I noticed that on the Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ record they could get away with racy lyrics like that because of how they looked and the melodic way they sang the suggestive stuff. They slid it by the censors.’ – Eric Carmen
‘Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach – sometimes under cover of night, in secret – rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia.’ – Juliana Hatfield
‘On most holidays, you’ll find me in Mexico. Actually, on most holidays you won’t find me. I’m at a beach, and it’s wonderful.’ – Kyrsten Sinema
‘The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
‘There’s nothing like taking Proust to the beach and daydreaming along to it.’ – Jerry Hall
‘I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.’ – Paul Walker
‘Colombia is not how people think it is. We used to eat fish every Sunday at the beach. In the town where I grew up, people did not tell lies.’ – Shakira
‘Hyams Beach is said to be the whitest in the world; walking on it is like wading through warm powdery snow – so clean it squeaks beneath your bare toes.’ – Mary Nightingale
‘I grew up in a family where everybody had a good time and we were at the lake every weekend and going to the beach and living a good life. It’s been the way we always lived, and my wife’s the same way – enjoy every day and have fun.’ – Luke Bryan
‘That’s why you can’t be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned – the fire, the fried oysters; the warmer seasons, too. Who knows the real worth of summer at the beach without a good taste of the seaside in winter?’ – Julia Glass
‘I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.’ – Chris Rock
‘When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn’t any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.’ – Larry Harvey
‘I’ve always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you’ll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It’s a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.’ – Nelson DeMille
‘Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.’ – Matthew McConaughey
‘We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I’d also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.’ – Graeme Le Saux
‘My favorite place in Indonesia is Bali. I was there with my family in Nusa Dua, and my kids loved it. I’m a workaholic, so for me, Bali is a place where you can have a vacation, but you can have your own moment as well. You feel like you blend with nature – and I love the beach.’ – Joe Taslim
‘The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.’ – Martin Jacques
”Love Will Keep Us Together’ was a combination of three different singing styles – Al Green, the Beach Boys, and Diana Ross. I loved all these people, and I put their singing styles together and wrote that tune.’ – Neil Sedaka
‘If I was being very honest about it, probably more honest than I should be, ’28 Days Later’ was a reaction to ‘The Beach’ in some ways because I felt it lacked a kind of aggression in it.’ – Alex Garland
‘My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool’s like – it’s nothing like I imagined it was as a child.’ – Robert Smith
‘Cirque du Soleil means Circus of the Sun. When I need to take time to reenergize, I go somewhere by the ocean to sit back and watch the sunsets. That is where the idea of ‘Soleil’ came from, on a beach in Hawaii, and because the sun is the symbol of youth and energy.’ – Guy Laliberte
‘The original way to play beach volleyball was in a bikini and board shorts, and I don’t know what else they want us to wear.’ – Kerri Walsh Jennings
‘I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don’t break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.’ – Nimrat Kaur
‘If I’m on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we’re on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It’s not exactly a vacation.’ – Daniela Pestova
‘I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I’ve ever found. Perhaps five years ago on a beach I saw this herb that looked exactly like chives. I put it in my mouth and started chewing and, surprise, it tasted exactly like coriander.’ – Rene Redzepi
‘We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it’s ‘China Beach,’ ‘The West Wing,’ or ‘E.R.” – Michael Cudlitz
‘I like Beach House a lot.’ – Hope Sandoval
‘I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the beach totally comfortable is not a desideratum in my life. I like ambiguity, I like conflict, I like uncertainly.’ – Alan Dershowitz
‘I swim a lot, almost every day. I just go out to the beach by my place in Malibu and jump into the ocean.’ – Michael Madsen
‘When three-quarters of the tournaments were being held in parking lots and other artificial locations, that was a growing frustration for me as someone who grew up playing beach volleyball and idolizing the guys who came before me and knowing the history of the sport.’ – Karch Kiraly
‘I’m near the beach, and I’m definitely a beach bum. For me, going to training and then going to the beach is kind of an escape for me to get away from everything and relax. It’s really done wonders for me.’ – Brendan Schaub
‘You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.’ – Michelle Bachelet
‘I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.’ – Anne Lamott
‘I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need. I like going to Florida – to Miami and to visit my mom in Fort Meyers.’ – Rob Gronkowski
‘The Beach Boys were my favorite. I use to listen to their hits over and over, especially ‘In My Room’ and ‘Don’t Worry Baby.’ There’s something really sad about ‘Don’t Worry Baby.’ Even though it’s just a California song about racing cars, the melody is really sad. There’s melancholy in it.’ – Phil Elverum
‘My family was well off but not rich. I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the beach. And it wasn’t because I was lazy; it was because my freshman class would go to a hundred different employers and wouldn’t get a nibble. That was a disequilibrium system. I realized that the ordinary old-fashioned Euclidean geometry didn’t apply.’ – Paul Samuelson
”Teen Beach Movie’ was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island – you can’t even call it work!’ – Ross Lynch
‘Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia – the place where all our dreams come true.’ – Roxane Gay
‘A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.’ – Tom Ford
‘Beauty – what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune – what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth – you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.’ – Richard Jefferies
‘Miami is so crazy. Cars on South Beach in December can barely move!’ – Rev. Run
‘Growing up in Australia, we didn’t really go on holiday. We lived beside the beach, so when I walked out of the back gate I was on the sand.’ – John Torode
‘I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.’ – Carl Wilson
‘Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.’ – Zaha Hadid
‘I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don’t know what I’m going to do.’ – Goran Ivanisevic
‘I get up at 7:30. I grab a canvas bag and go out. I say hello to the people in the supermarket and liquor store. I buy the ‘New York Times.’ I go to the beach and think about characters and plot.’ – Lawrence Sanders
‘Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith
‘There’s only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that’s by getting in the sand.’ – Kerri Walsh Jennings
‘There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love.’ – Dennis Wilson
‘People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.’ – Carrie Fisher
‘I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I’m very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it’s healthy to get a little bit of color.’ – Candice Accola
‘I used to have a musical group with a girlfriend called The Thunderclouds. It was like a Beach Boys cover band. And we would just figure out Beach Boy songs – break ’em into two-part harmonies. And, you know, we played a couple of shows around Olympia. It was very fun.’ – Phil Elverum
‘Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.’ – Claude Monet
‘As much as we love being sociable on holiday, part of me craves the idea of being away, staying in a hut on the beach, and maybe not seeing anyone for days apart from Jamie and the boys.’ – Louise Nurding
‘It’s very hard to respect people on holiday – everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity – but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it’s a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.’ – Alain de Botton
‘We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that’s difficult because it’s tough to do better than winning a world title.’ – Eric Cantona
‘A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what freedom is all about.’ – Newt Gingrich
‘Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.’ – Cyril Connolly
‘They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman’s octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.’ – Luigi Barzini
‘You’ll never find your gold on a sandy beach.’ – Jim Steinman
‘What’s really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we’re alive for only a limited period of time, and we’ll spend most of our lives working.’ – Victor Kiam
‘The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.’ – Dennis Wilson
‘I’m really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I’m Joe Straight.’ – River Phoenix
‘I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don’t do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert.’ – Doug Davidson
‘It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn’t really. I didn’t use the beach very much at all.’ – Miranda Richardson
‘I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.’ – Roma Downey
‘Along the beach I never collected shells from my father’s shore.’ – Corey Hart
‘I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.’ – Fran Drescher
‘I learned with ‘The Beach’ that I’m a bit better lower down the radar.’ – Danny Boyle
‘Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.’ – Karen Duffy
‘Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time.’ – Roy Wood
‘It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie.’ – John Robinson
‘I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.’ – Peter Wright
‘Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.’ – Bruce Johnston
‘Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them.’ – Bruce Johnston
‘You know, The Beach Boys’ image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?’ – Bruce Johnston
‘It was like in Samoa when they’d put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.’ – Dick Wolf
‘I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.’ – Rebecca Miller
‘I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.’ – Walter Jon Williams
‘If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas.’ – Mike Love
‘They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.’ – Leif Garrett
‘On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I’d go back to school for the week.’ – Carrot Top
‘Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.’ – Dick Bruna
‘I couldn’t do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady’s Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.’ – Dana Carvey
‘Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.’ – Natalie Gulbis
‘I’ve been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach.’ – Amber Tamblyn
‘The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods.’ – John Foster
‘I’ll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I’ve always dreamed of a beach wedding.’ – Nicole Appleton
‘Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O’Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.’ – Tommy Rettig
‘We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.’ – John Mellencamp
‘I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach.’ – Lisa Snowdon
‘If I have a Sunday free, I’ll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.’ – Parker Stevenson
‘Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.’ – Freddie Mercury
‘In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.’ – Stephen Collins
‘In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.’ – Dana Rohrabacher
‘I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.’ – Eric Cantona
‘One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach – of course – and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.’ – Oksana Baiul
‘Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn’t get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk.’ – Geraldo Rivera
‘I rent houses in LA when I’m filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There’s nowhere to go, there’s nowhere to be with people. I’m not a beach bunny.’ – Kathleen Turner
‘A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.’ – Mike Weir
‘We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.’ – Michael Stipe
‘We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you’d have to wonder what that was about.’ – Rachel True
‘And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.’ – Travis Barker
‘In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form.’ – George Grey
‘My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.’ – Mickey Gilley
‘In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.’ – Keith Thibodeaux
‘I move between San Francisco and Paris… I have a wonderful beach house in California.’ – Danielle Steel
‘The pictures we saw before we got down here didn’t even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up.’ – Connie Sellecca
‘Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you’re saying you have a political conscience but you don’t agree with any of the existing parties.’ – Jose Saramago
‘I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.’ – Yancy Butler
‘But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I’ll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.’ – Cindy Crawford
‘I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.’ – David Ginola
‘We have our little restaurants, and there’s a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it’s at my house, we order pizza because I can’t cook.’ – Katie Holmes
‘If you’re soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don’t mind kicking sand in your face.’ – Michael Eisner
‘I didn’t go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn’t have the money – but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night.’ – Amanda Holden
‘I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don’t have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It’s always fun.’ – James Lafferty
‘My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, ‘Max, you get the dogs. I’ll talk to the hot blondes.” – John C. McGinley
‘The British are so funny. It’s like they can’t believe I lived in Hackney. ‘You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in ‘Ackney?’ But Hackney’s fantastic. I’m serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.’ – Rose Byrne
‘So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother’s house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write.’ – George Lopez
‘To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.’ – Fatos Nano
‘I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you’re programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.’ – John Stamos
‘I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the ‘Endless Summer’ album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don’t have to think about it; it’s something that you feel.’ – John Stamos
‘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
‘You still should enjoy the beach and going outside. Having a good time at the beach can still include being smart about protecting your skin because getting burned is no fun at all.’ – Brande Roderick
‘I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.’ – Elizabeth Berkley
‘I don’t want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.’ – Jessica Chastain
‘I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.’ – Evelyn Glennie
‘When I see old photos of me on the beach I don’t look too bad… but it’s hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!’ – Gary Lineker
‘Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.’ – Chris Martin
‘With the red hair, you get the white skin; it’s a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.’ – Marcia Cross
‘I don’t wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven’t seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I’m very prudish.’ – Carey Mulligan
‘My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.’ – Christina Applegate
‘Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don’t see that it’s crucial for a democracy!’ – David Baldacci
‘I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.’ – Michael Connelly
‘To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, ‘Ozzie’s Beach Whale of a Daughter,’ doesn’t really do much for your self-esteem at all.’ – Kelly Osbourne
‘I think it’s a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it’s literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it’s romance, or a beach book – in short, it’s something unworthy of a serious critic’s attention.’ – Jennifer Weiner
‘New York is like a vacation – no beach required.’ – Seann William Scott
‘My relaxation has always been my animals – going to the dog park with them, going to the beach.’ – Hilary Swank
‘I’m not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!’ – Gabrielle Union
‘I’m not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It’s better than riding a stationary bike.’ – Maria Sharapova
‘I still love things that you don’t even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.’ – Maria Sharapova
‘I’m pale-skinned so I don’t feel at my best on a beach.’ – Clive Anderson
‘The thing to remember about Phuket is it’s very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.’ – Tony Parsons
‘There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It’s very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It’s ridiculously reasonable, too.’ – Tony Parsons
‘I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had ‘bikini’d’ me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.’ – Amanda Burton
‘I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can’t think if I’m wrong I’ll blow $30,000.’ – Jennifer Tilly
‘I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.’ – Jerry Doyle
‘I made this film ‘The Beach,’ which didn’t take place in a city, and it didn’t really suit me.’ – Danny Boyle
‘I’m in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can’t impress them with a beach.’ – Rose Byrne
‘All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It’s a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.’ – Rene Redzepi
‘I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me to that little pro-am thing, but I’m not big enough.’ – Lewis Black
‘The most adventurous thing I’ve done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.’ – Francis Ford Coppola
‘The funny thing is that I’m the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who’s traveled with me. Normally, I’m in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!’ – Vera Wang
‘I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan’s Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.’ – Dorothea Benton Frank
‘Here’s my definition of a great beach read – a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it’s over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.’ – Dorothea Benton Frank
‘The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.’ – Pat Robertson
‘As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.’ – Jean Pigozzi
‘I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.’ – Jack Nicklaus
‘In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel very productive when I’m in New York.’ – Ashley Greene
‘My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.’ – Bill Condon
‘Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It’s great to live very comfortably. I’ve been lucky, I’ve had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.’ – Gary Oldman
‘There’s a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.’ – Ice Cube
‘The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.’ – Ice Cube
‘But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don’t think we’ve lost that mind-set. We don’t have a bowling alley in our basement. We don’t have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.’ – Carrie Underwood
‘It’s good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it’s very pleasing after writing something like ‘Atonement’ or ‘On Chesil Beach,’ which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.’ – Ian Mcewan
‘I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.’ – Samantha Stosur
‘If I’m on holiday, I’m active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It’s just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn’t really feel that bad.’ – Candice Swanepoel
‘I’m so fair that I didn’t go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn’t like you going in the sun, so I never did.’ – Miranda Otto
‘A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course to practice. Sometimes they’d come from the beach at dark to pick me up at the course.’ – Mike Weir
‘It’s really intimidating to go on the beach in a bikini.’ – Helena Christensen
‘I can’t read music. Instead, I’d do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize – out of like 5,000 kids!’ – Eddie Van Halen
‘Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it’s romantic.’ – Benjamin Bratt
‘I do live a weirdly divided life, because I’m not a Hollywood superstar, I don’t live on Malibu Beach, I don’t do massive ‘OK!’ spreads, I don’t go to premieres and parties that much.’ – James Purefoy
‘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
‘The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It’s my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I’m away working.’ – Behati Prinsloo
‘Maxi dresses are also my best friend. They take me from my morning coffee, to the beach, to nighttime.’ – Hilary Rhoda
‘I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.’ – Jasmine Tookes
‘If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can’t be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don’t want to go off the beaten track.’ – Jenny Eclair
‘I don’t like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.’ – Carrie Preston
‘I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.’ – Jason Lee
‘Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.’ – Jason Lee
‘If I want to get a taste of beach culture, I’ll fire up my season 2 DVD of ‘Beverly Hills, 90210.” – Diablo Cody
‘Miami Beach – that’s where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother – a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate – my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.’ – Brett Ratner
‘No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don’t care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.’ – Candice Swanepoel
‘For the women in California, they’re just downtrodden because they’re so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it. The men don’t want to get married, they’re lazy lions. Matthew McConaughey is their poster boy so they can procreate and live on the beach in the trailer and have kids and have money and be hedonistic.’ – Patti Stanger
‘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
‘I’m a good Canadian girl. I miss all that good stuff. I miss tobogganing and I miss snowboarding, but I’ve also learned to surf and I’ve become a water baby which I used to be relatively terrified of the water and I kayak all the time now and I’m able to run year round on the beach which you can’t obviously do in Canada.’ – Evangeline Lilly
‘It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach – particularly the northern end of South Beach – is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime.’ – Susan Orlean
‘I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.’ – St. Vincent
‘My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.’ – Britt Ekland
‘Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I’m also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey.’ – Mayer Hawthorne
‘I couldn’t live in L.A. and not be close to the beach, you know, that’s like the whole thing. I don’t understand people who don’t live by the beach. Why would you not?’ – Mayer Hawthorne
‘Holiday? Is like, what? I’m a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That’s my perfect holiday.’ – Melanie Laurent
‘I kinda like Florida. It’s hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn’t Florida the way people think of Florida. It wasn’t south Florida. But you could still easily drive to Panama City Beach and get a little bit of Redneck Riviera if you want that. Get some airbrushed T-shirts on, and you’re done.’ – Tony Hale
‘I love the ocean, but I’m just not one to lie on the beach.’ – Naomi Judd
‘Once you become an actor, it’s important to take care of yourself. I live in Santa Monica, where I can mountain bike, hike and go running on the beach. I like a nice sunset jog.’ – Mark Feuerstein
‘Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.’ – Tammin Sursok
‘There’s the historical part of The Beach Boys’ music; it’s pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.’ – Mike Love
‘I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.’ – Mike Love
‘If you ask any couple who have been married 50 years or longer, they will tell you they’ve experienced it all. The same is true of the Beach Boys.’ – Mike Love
‘I’m the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.’ – Mike Love
‘I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko.’ – AnnaLynne McCord
‘I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of ‘Laguna Beach’ because it was pretty bad… head-to-toe bad.’ – Lauren Conrad
‘I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.’ – Lauren Conrad
‘Every now and again I want to go to the beach and be in the sun, but that’s a very rare feeling, so I could live in London, definitely.’ – Taylor Momsen
‘I don’t really like the gym. I like to fool my body. I run around the beach and then there’s scaffolding so I can just do different pulls-ups there.’ – Kellan Lutz
‘There are not many places in the world where you can get to the beach in an hour, the desert in two hours and snowboarding or skiing in three hours. You can do all that in California.’ – Alex Pettyfer
‘With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don’t really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we’re still in control of what we’re doing, and it’s a great time in our existence.’ – Victoria Legrand
‘We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It’s unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It’s all art in the end. We aren’t making records because we have to; it’s because it’s what we want to express.’ – Victoria Legrand
‘My favourite city is Miami. It’s very fresh and the beach is sunny.’ – Liu Wen
‘I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I’ll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.’ – Audrina Patridge
‘I’m not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.’ – Miranda Richardson
‘I grew up in Los Angeles. I still remember when I was a junior in high school studying for the SATs. I had my job – I was actually a production assistant on a film – but on weekends, I would finish my prep tests on the beach.’ – Cody Horn
‘I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.’ – Adam Shankman
‘Twenty or 30 years from now, I’m going to be on a beach in Jamaica.’ – Idris Elba
‘I like to run on the beach. It’s a different exercise as well when you’re in sand, a different kind of training.’ – Charlie Bewley
‘I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns.’ – Ricky Whittle
‘I think pineapple is very sexy. It reminds me of bikinis and the beach.’ – Penn Badgley
‘It’s tempting to just write a comic called ‘Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks’ – maybe it would work, and I could just close down the ‘xkcd’ store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.’ – Randall Munroe
‘I’m all about shrimpburgers, reading, and going to the beach.’ – Sarah Dessen
‘I am definitely a Type A personality, always rushing around, trying to do too much, not good at just lying on the beach. But I’m so thankful for everything I have: wonderfully supportive parents and sisters, the best husband in the world, terrific students I love teaching and hanging out with, and above all, my two amazing daughters.’ – Amy Chua
‘If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You’ll want something new.’ – Tim Ferriss
‘When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, ‘Why do you work? If I were you, I’d just go and lie on a beach somewhere.’ And I’d answer, ‘Well, I wanted to make something of my life.” – Gloria Vanderbilt
‘Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.’ – Maggie Grace
‘Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. ‘From Here to Eternity’ must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.’ – Manny Farber
‘Nothing could happen to me in the water that would make me want to go on the beach and fight someone. That’s just not how I do things.’ – Rob Machado
‘I’m a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.’ – Michael B. Jordan
‘I remember having this friend in school who said she didn’t like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn’t be friends anymore.’ – Zooey Deschanel
‘I’m a master of heels. I’m used to them. I’m tiny, so I wear them all the time. Apart from to the beach. That would be slightly psycho. I’m over the top, but not that much yet.’ – Josephine de La Baume
‘My ‘go to’ workout is called the Asylum from Beach Body. It’s intense training with lots of intervals, core work. It’s hard! I travel a lot, so I can take it on the road with me and do it in a hotel room.’ – Apolo Ohno
‘The Beach Boys have always been a part of the ’60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I’m very proud of them.’ – Brian Wilson
‘It’s like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That’s what I did with The Beach Boys.’ – Brian Wilson
‘I have to at least get a couple weekends in where I can just be on Santa Monica beach or Malibu and just ride the waves.’ – Jake T. Austin
‘I love being on the beach – it’s my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.’ – Geri Halliwell
‘On the beach, we women are at our most exposed and therefore most vulnerable. As any woman deserves to look and feel good, especially when she’s away on holiday, she needs swimwear that pays proper attention to comfort and function. And there should also be some thought put into value.’ – Geri Halliwell
‘I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had a real calming effect. But also, it was a mysterious thing – I remember wondering what was under those dark New England seas.’ – Brian Skerry
‘I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.’ – Estelle
‘Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.’ – Wilbur Ross
‘My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It’s a place filled with sun, close to the beach.’ – Luca Parmitano
‘Ah, my dad’s whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we’d hear the whistle and we’d all come running. Like dogs!’ – Kate Winslet
‘I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don’t wear make-up. I go to the gym.’ – A. J. Cook
‘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
‘As a little girl, I thought I’d like to get married on the beach. But I’m not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.’ – Mandy Moore
‘I’m no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it’s Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It’s not nice.’ – Denis Leary
‘I’m such an L.A. boy, I love hanging out by the beach and throwing some steaks on the grill.’ – Eric Balfour
‘I’m definitely much more of a beach bunny. I prefer the sun over the snow.’ – Gillian Zinser
‘I’m attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.’ – Randy Pausch
‘I’ve no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book.’ – Sam Riley
‘I’m a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.’ – B.o.B
‘I grew up eating street tacos and burritos on the beach, so I like people who can eat and aren’t afraid to show it.’ – Emily Ratajkowski
‘I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.’ – Daniel Bruhl
‘Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A.’ – Jordan Gavaris
‘I’m 24, so I’ll go out and, yeah, have a few drinks and dance – I love to dance – and have a good time, but I like to do other things, too. I like going to the beach and reading and hiking.’ – Josie Loren
‘I love to be outdoors, so I like to hike, bike and go to the beach.’ – Jillian Rose Reed
‘My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.’ – Katy B
‘I believe it’s a woman’s right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can’t she also wear everything?’ – Malala Yousafzai
‘I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.’ – Bailey Chase
‘I’m really into beaches, but I also enjoy a bit of culture. An ideal holiday would have a nice balance of the two, but I’m definitely not into adrenalin sports, nor would I enjoy spending a month solid on a beach.’ – Miranda Raison
‘Every minute I’m on the set, it’s play time for me. I feel like I’m on the beach!’ – Rachel G. Fox
‘I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.’ – Tracy Chapman
‘There’s nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.’ – Thomas Gibson
‘When I’m not acting, I’m at the beach. I like to spend a lot of time in the water, surfing.’ – Brenton Thwaites
‘Writing on the beach is not what it’s cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don’t do that anymore.’ – Elmore Leonard
‘From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I’d hang out in magic shops.’ – Rick Rubin
‘What better way to work out than by the beach with my pup, Gucci? We power walk a bit, take in the beautiful beach air and constantly stop for some water so that all 5 pounds of him doesn’t over-heated!’ – Cassie Scerbo
‘I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I’m in. I can also be a beach bum – I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.’ – Cherie Lunghi
‘Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I’d buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.’ – Cherie Lunghi
‘I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.’ – Max Beesley
‘Mom’s dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.’ – Mark Hoppus
‘My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I’m a massive quiz show person.’ – Daniel Radcliffe
‘I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.’ – Denis Leary
‘This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren’t any buildings on it. You’d go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village – that’s all gone.’ – Salman Rushdie
‘People are always telling me that they’ve seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.’ – Salman Rushdie
‘Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer – it’s like 125 degrees – so my mom, my brother and I would go to the beach for two months to escape the heat.’ – Emma Stone
‘I would only read the novels that people classify as ‘beach books’ if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the ‘Book of Mormon.” – Tom Robbins
‘Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity – instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.’ – Umberto Eco
‘Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.’ – Christa B. Allen
‘How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I’ve always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I’ve always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.’ – Athol Fugard
‘On the beach, I take my clothes off under a towel.’ – Clare Balding
‘I have two houses in California, and they’re both within a couple of minutes from the beach. So, I definitely feel at home in California and by the ocean.’ – Marisa Miller
‘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
‘The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I’ll go surf. The beach is 10 minutes away.’ – Marisa Miller
‘Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.’ – Missy Peregrym
‘I find I’m not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on the mountainside in County Donegal that’s, you know, ‘Oh, a melody.’ It’s more a matter of eventually taking that moment with me to the studio, and it begins to evolve.’ – Enya
‘I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.’ – Patti LuPone
‘Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This condition of city and water on two sides I think is really amazing. And in the heart of that city, it has put an enormous convention center, an enormous physical presence.’ – Rem Koolhaas
‘I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.’ – William Gibson
‘I have always put my own money into Tails of Joy. For years, every time a dog walked by, my husband would say, ‘There goes our beach house.” – Elayne Boosler
‘To speak of oneself means to lay bare one’s own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one’s own soul is not at all like taking off one’s brassiere on a crowded beach!’ – Oriana Fallaci
‘The best drink I’ve ever had was a mojito in St. Barts at Nikki Beach. That drink changed my life.’ – Sarah Carter
‘Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach. It is a suburb for people who appreciate those aspects of life.’ – Richie Benaud
‘I like things going on in my life. I don’t want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.’ – Magic Johnson
‘I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford’s ‘Good Solider’ or something I wasn’t equipped to understand.’ – Noah Baumbach
‘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
‘I’m actually most comfortable when I’m in a bikini, running around on the beach, like, no makeup. It’s really free-feeling, whereas I’m always having to get dressed up and putting makeup on.’ – Ashley Tisdale
‘Half the time on vacation, if I’m in a bikini, I allow myself – I eat, like, waffles and pancakes for breakfast, so that’s me after, like, a big meal. I’m not the one that’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m going to be on the beach.” – Ashley Tisdale
‘I’m a Kiwi. I’m from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.’ – Lorde
‘I’m surrounded by the beach, so I love to fish and to dive and to swim. I walk a lot, and I bike around. I hang out at the beach, really, and muck around.’ – Lorde
‘Wherever I can go, I hit the water, whether it’s the ocean, or in L.A. it’s Zuma Beach in Malibu; I just hit the water.’ – David Hasselhoff
‘What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There’s vacations, and there’s vegetations. I don’t do well vegetating.’ – Kim Cattrall
‘In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.’ – Martin Parr
‘Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It’s not like they’re quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They’re just using birth control.’ – Jen Kirkman
‘My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I’ve been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What’s beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.’ – Hill Harper
‘My best vacation memory is getting barreled at the beach in Hawaii.’ – Troy Polamalu
‘I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.’ – Ireland Baldwin
‘I’m a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.’ – Teddy Sears
‘The French, not the Americans, commissioned ‘Einstein on the Beach.” – Robert Wilson
‘I am a keen medievalist and like going around museums and ruins and finding out about the people and local culture. I’m not one for sitting by a pool or lying on a beach. I also like to sketch while I’m on holiday, if I have time.’ – Jools Holland
‘My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.’ – Dani Shapiro
‘People don’t really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn’t say it’s not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.’ – Francisco Costa
‘As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed, some of it vividly obscene.’ – William Finnegan
”SMiLE’ is perhaps the Beach Boys’ most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That’s a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson’s masterpiece.’ – Henry Rollins
‘I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship’s lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?’ – Anita Shreve
‘I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!’ – Marissa Jaret Winokur
‘You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would go to the beach all the time, but we don’t. It’s the same as visiting the Statue of Liberty. If you don’t live in N.Y.C., it’s the first stop on your family vacation, but if you live there, you only go if you have relatives visiting from out of town!’ – Marissa Jaret Winokur
‘Opening day is always so cool to be a part of and to people watch. The Pacific Classic, which I’ve had the privilege of riding in a couple of times, is great. Every day at Del Mar is fantastic. I love the smells, working out on the beach, running the stairs. It’s just a healthy environment. I love it.’ – Chantal Sutherland
‘The sheeplike nature of travel – being on a beach with thousands of other people is not my idea of fun. I also don’t like being a tourist because you don’t know what’s really going on in a country.’ – Diana Quick
‘My first novel, ‘You Lost Me There,’ has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There’s not much room for mistakes when you’re competing against the sun for a person’s attention.’ – Rosecrans Baldwin
‘I can’t picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.’ – Rosecrans Baldwin
‘It’s fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there’s a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.’ – Andrew H. Knoll
‘When I’m not working, I love going to the beach. I am from Florida, so I definitely love the beach life. I love horse-back riding. Just to go out to a barn, it’s fun. It’s kind of like a get-away from the city. And also, I love animals.’ – Stefanie Scott
‘I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.’ – Anushka Sharma
‘I want to be a simple bride when I get married. I want a beach wedding where I am running around on the sand in a white dress.’ – Sonakshi Sinha
‘The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go.’ – Shilpa Shetty
‘I’m kind of a beach bum from Florida, and I have a very different style. I like tight-fitting, Euro-fitting clothes, colored pants.’ – Chandler Parsons
‘I love Miami; I miss it so much. I miss the beach, the peace it brings you. I love the sound and smell of the sea.’ – Genesis Rodriguez
‘I love the beach, and I love sunshine.’ – Megan Fox
‘I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.’ – Greg MacGillivray
‘People recognise me when I’m holiday on the beach.’ – Joanne Froggatt
‘The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of lengths, the animals walk smoothly. You could say that this range of numbers is their genetic code.’ – Theo Jansen
‘If they made films in Palm Beach, actors and actresses would be much better dressed.’ – Kenneth Jay Lane
‘In times of uncertainty – whether it’s economic, psychological, emotional, or philosophical – people often say that the only thing we can truly control is our attitudes. If that’s true, then I’m going to spend today walking my 14-year-old dog on a free beach and treasuring the fact that she’s still alive.’ – Ali Liebegott
‘I went to Long Beach State, started out as an actor.’ – David Twohy
‘I’ve often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach is. In fact, no one’s even sure which island Columbus first encountered (there are three candidates). It’s a pity, a disappointment, and a lost revenue source for the Bahamians.’ – Seth Shostak
‘The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.’ – Clint Eastwood
‘I think Pebble Beach is kind of a unique place on the planet.’ – Clint Eastwood
‘No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.’ – Don Rickles
‘I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.’ – Mario Andretti
‘Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that.’ – Mario Andretti
‘There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own – Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.’ – Mario Andretti
‘I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.’ – Diana Nyad
‘I run on the beach in the mornings. I’ve also immensely enjoyed CrossFit with Dheepesh Bhatt.’ – Nimrat Kaur
‘The weirdest place I ever actually woke up in was a villa on the beach in Mexico. It was burning hot, and there were all these crabs walking around me. But I was feeling good, so I went with the vibe.’ – Future
‘I was on a beach in Hawaii for a video shoot once, and it was incredibly beautiful. It had very fine black sand with a silver sparkle running through it.’ – Louise Nurding
‘At home, we live on the beach, and it’s like every day is a date.’ – Grant Show
‘I’m not a beach person.’ – Theophilus London
‘There is a natural progression to ‘Lost,’ and as the story goes forward, it’s going to change. It’s not a static story. The franchise of ‘Lost’ is not characters sitting on a beach.’ – Carlton Cuse
‘Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.’ – Israel Horovitz
‘In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club’s request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 – just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks.’ – Bill Dedman
‘The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year – far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.’ – Bill Dedman
‘From the outside, Rick Rubin’s house above Zuma Beach is a generic millionaire beach home. There’s a rarely used tennis court and a circular drive.’ – Stephen Rodrick
‘That’s a lot of words about the weather, but in Canberra you can’t help but be aware of the seasons, and there is something wonderful about that. Okay, so there’s a distinct lack of beach, but aside from that, the place grows on you.’ – Judy Horacek
‘I play volleyball on the beach. It’s a great way to work out and have fun.’ – Jessica Sanchez
‘The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that’s a great place to start. I’m trying to spread at least the knowledge that it’s never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.’ – Aaron Peirsol
‘I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I’ve lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time?’ – Eric Dane
‘Gone are the days when you could lie on a beach between races and still be in good enough shape to compete. Gone are the days when simply wearing a brand on your firesuit was enough to justify the marketing expense of an Indy Car. Racing an Indy Car is only about a quarter of my life as a racing driver.’ – Charlie Kimball
‘I like to go to the gym with my girls, practice yoga, try new recipes, bake, have slumber parties, go to the beach, have adventures, book hunt, shop for new records, or road trip somewhere… anything that keeps me laughing and excited about the day, really. I like feeling free to do what I or my friends want to do on our days off.’ – Lindsay Pearce
‘I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.’ – Natasha Lyonne
‘When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on the beach.’ – Amy Childs
‘I’ve always been active – outdoors, on the beach, playing – and so to go home and have to sit on my couch and relax… it’s frustrating. Sometimes, you just have to really shut yourself down.’ – Landon Donovan
‘Dorado Beach’s rich history provided amazing inspiration to put forward a bold menu celebrating the legacy of the people and cuisine that shaped this unique destination and to push me to share some of my own stories.’ – Jose Andres
‘I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.’ – Alan G. Poindexter
‘I love being in Malibu. It’s so cool there, and the water is just, it’s nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.’ – Jackie Evancho
‘That whole thing: the paparazzi, a gazillion magazines. You can’t lie on a beach. God forbid your bikini rides up too far or you’ve eaten too many doughnuts and they catch you wiping your mouth. That must be exhausting, that lack of privacy.’ – Megan Follows
‘I was fooled a bit during ‘Laguna Beach.’ I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot a documentary, and that it probably wouldn’t end up anywhere, anyway. Little did we know about the power of editing. I had no idea that it was going to be the soap drama that it was, but I picked up on that pretty quickly.’ – Stephen Colletti
‘Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the beach, camping with my family a bunch, and traveling as much as we could. My parents wouldn’t let me watch too much TV growing up or play video games, or anything like that.’ – Stephen Colletti
‘I really loved working on ‘Laguna Beach,’ and I’d do it all over again. I’m one of the luckiest kids in the world, but I thought it was going to be a documentary about kids in high school, and they exaggerated all this drama. When it came out, it was this weird thing. People feel that they know you.’ – Stephen Colletti
‘I’ve played Madison Square Garden and Jones Beach several times, but I personally don’t enjoy those larger venues. I much prefer theater or a performance space.’ – Jason Mraz
‘I grew up on the beach. It’s just a way of life. You don’t seek out that lifestyle; it’s just day-to-day.’ – Phoebe Tonkin
‘Los Angeles and Sydney are very similar, but I definitely enjoy more fresh seafood when I’m back in Australia, as there is so much great, fresh produce here. I also like going swimming at the beach while I’m home, too.’ – Phoebe Tonkin
‘I gather most people don’t remember that when the U.S. Open first went to Pebble Beach in 1972, a big deal was made of the Open going to a public course for the first time.’ – Dan Jenkins
‘I do as many fun activities as possible. A lot of hiking, beach bike riding and walking. And cardio barre, which is a dance-based workout at a ballet barre. It’s a full-body workout for one hour on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in a studio.’ – Jillian Rose Reed
‘I look my best when I’m totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.’ – Rosamund Pike
‘It’s almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don’t go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money; they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people’s companies.’ – Sarah Lacy
‘Old beach houses sometimes don’t have TVs, or you don’t get cellphone reception.’ – Jim Rash
‘When my novel ‘Beach Music’ came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.’ – Pat Conroy
‘I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.’ – Saffron Aldridge
‘Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass with three silver bar jacks swimming in front of her nose.’ – Brian Skerry
‘I do a lot of mixed martial arts – it’s like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don’t like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.’ – Victor Webster
‘I don’t think most people decide to become an actor because they want to be followed around all the time… I see it when I’m with my brothers, and I don’t get it. I don’t understand why someone wants to take a photo of us getting out of a car or on the beach. I think that’s really weird.’ – Luke Hemsworth
‘My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I’m sitting on this deserted beach, and I see one lone person walking along the shore. He walks right up to me and says, ‘I love ‘Laser Cats,’ and then just walks away.’ – Bill Hader
‘If you do something that’s going to get somebody a job, then they’ll be able to pay for their kid’s school, and then their kid is going to be a doctor, and then that doctor is going to probably help who knows how many other people, so it’s very motivating. Much more fun than going to the beach.’ – Isabel dos Santos
‘In L.A., I love the L’Ermitage in Beverly Hills. Also, the Beverly Wilshire, where they make great huevos rancheros. I also love Shutters on the Beach, where I walk around everywhere in a bathrobe.’ – Adam Richman
‘I love being natural. I never feel more beautiful then after I’ve been to the beach and my hair’s just a crazy mess of salt curls, or when I’ve just been outside all day hiking.’ – Troian Bellisario
‘Every writer has their rituals. For me, it’s morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge painting of the Black Madonna hung over my desk, and quite a few pictures of Mary around me for inspiration.’ – Sue Monk Kidd
‘My mum’s from Broome, so I’m a saltwater person – Aboriginal people are either freshwater, saltwater or desert mob. So I always feel much more comfortable in close proximity to the beach, even if I’m not necessarily in the water.’ – Shari Sebbens
‘I’m not married, and I don’t have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, ‘Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?” – Kevin Connolly
‘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
‘At Pebble Beach, even on your good shots, you’ve got to hit it to the correct side of the holes to save pars.’ – Dustin Johnson
‘Some people see acting as a kind of stroll on the beach, and some people see it as a kind of skydive. And I’ve had lots of strolls on the beach in my life, so I’d like to do a skydive.’ – Amanda Hale
‘I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, ‘Water’s polluted, no swimming.’ And I didn’t have any answers.’ – Ted Danson
‘I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn’t take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I’m a board member of Oceana, the world’s largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.’ – Ted Danson
‘My actinic keratosis is a result of the triumphalism of the beach. The sun exacerbates it.’ – John Updike
‘I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It’s really small; it’s kind of a little summer beach town.’ – Liam Hemsworth
‘If you’re a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you’ve waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.’ – Edmund White
‘I taught high school for one year in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and in the end, it was such an enjoyable experience breaking up fights daily, that I decided to return to the combat zone of Afghanistan.’ – Allen West
‘I didn’t have a pool growing up, and we went to the beach to lay out and get sun.’ – Erika Eleniak
‘I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.’ – John W. Thompson
‘I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I have very fond memories of getting chips from his favourite chippy and heading down to the beach to eat Baskin Robbins ice cream.’ – Andrew Buchan
‘My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one – but all my kids have to be there, because they are all lobster-lovers. Making a bolognese sauce over pappardelle for my husband on a winter evening, because he loves my bolognese sauce and it’s his comfort food.’ – Amy Bloom
‘Everybody has their own appreciation of the Beach Boys, depending on where they’re coming from with their musical tastes, so we tried to be representative of all eras and of everybody in the band and their contributions.’ – Mike Love
‘The Beach Boys was a family hobby that we turned into a profession. We’re very blessed.’ – Mike Love
‘I think the Beach Boys’ legacy is ‘Fun, Fun, Fun,’ you know? We’re calling our next tour ’50 Years of Fun, Fun, Fun.’ By and large, the Beach Boys’ legacy is about incredibly positivity. We’ve traveled around the world and uplifted the spirits of hundreds of millions of people. Our sound is one of the most recognizable in all of music.’ – Mike Love
‘I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.’ – Mike Love
‘What we look for when we need to find someone who can fit in with our music, the vocals and the harmonies and the way they blend are very important to us because if you listen to Beach Boys music, the harmonies, not only are the notes being sung, but there’s a blend to it. The voices have to blend.’ – Mike Love
‘I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that… rock music became a huge economic force.’ – Mike Love
‘We came from the ’60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the ’60s was so darn good, you’ve got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too… amazing records, amazing songs.’ – Mike Love
‘Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.’ – Mike Love
‘The original Beach Boys are Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine.’ – Mike Love
‘The name ‘The Beach Boys’ is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys and whose sole shareholders voted over a decade ago to grant me an exclusive license to tour as ‘The Beach Boys.’ With it, I’ve felt a great responsibility to uphold, honor and further our legacy.’ – Mike Love
‘We’ve had hassles, ups and downs, ins and outs, failures and triumphs. We’re human beings, and we’re not perfect. And we’re mortal. But the Beach Boys is musically a tremendous body of work that transcends individuality and time and national boundaries.’ – Mike Love
‘Sometimes I listen to ’60s or oldies stations to see if they’re going to play a Beach Boys song.’ – Mike Love
‘The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.’ – Mike Love
‘Ever since our Surfin’ Safari’ began in the early 1960’s, the relations’hip with The Beach Boys and water has been synonymous. ‘Surfin’, ‘Catch a Wave’, and ‘Surfin’ USA’ are songs which capture the feelings of being out in the water without a care in the world, living a dream so many long to live no matter where they are from.’ – Mike Love
‘The music I have created, along with the other Beach Boys, has taken me all over the world. For these past 50 years, I guess you could say, ‘I get around.” – Mike Love
‘After Fergie and Prince Andrew honeymooned at Le Touessrok in Mauritius, Bobby, my late husband, and I were first to stay in their suite. We enjoyed the benefits – all the spoils and the special luxuries. We practically had our own private beach, and it was most romantic.’ – Cilla Black
‘It’s more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there every day.’ – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
‘Sometimes just being on a beach with my loved ones is all the adventure I need. I am a happy camper and continue to be a citizen of the world. I have yet to discover other cultures, other peoples’ dreams and treasures. I will always be a traveler who is discovering beautiful Gaia.’ – Guy Laliberte
‘I’ll be on a beach somewhere when I’m 40.’ – Tim Howard
‘I surfed Dana Point, San Clemente, and of course Huntington Beach. Every morning, you could find me at the hot water pipe.’ – Dick Dale
‘One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water’s edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach.’ – Luanne Rice
‘During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal – which in fact it was, because it was nature.’ – Luanne Rice
‘I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn’t even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.’ – Joel Sternfeld
‘I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That’s pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question.’ – Robert Webb
‘Car-essential is a real turn-off to me, so yeah, I just want a friendly holiday resort with a villa and a pool, but which is really private, but there again, there’s a supermarket and a doctor’s and a beach a five-minute walk away. That’s all I want, and it’s quite difficult to find.’ – Robert Webb
‘If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.’ – Shane Smith
‘We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think that secure cocoon of familial love was so nourishing, it gave me the strength to live life on my own.’ – Kiki Dee
‘I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don’t think people really know what that means – they think the Beach Boys. I’m thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that.’ – Ariel Pink
‘My best friends are just girls who go to school. They’re not in the industry, and we have dinner nights and learn how to cook together and go on hiking trails and the beach.’ – Nicole Gale Anderson
‘Perhaps summer’s ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild characters are literary ice cream sundaes – extravagant treats that aren’t as calorie-laden when we’re wearing flip flops.’ – Sarah MacLean
‘Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing.’ – David A. R. White
‘I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.’ – Chelsea Cain
‘I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family’s roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.’ – Diplo
‘I’m at the beach all the time. I surf. I fish. I dive. These things on Instagram are really my life with my buddies doing my normal day-to-day stuff. I happen to be shirtless a lot.’ – Scott Eastwood
‘I’m a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between movies. I feel like I have to do a chess movie that requires very little movement at some point, just so I can eat pizza and play chess on the beach all day.’ – Channing Tatum
‘I’ll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I’d just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.’ – Olga Kurylenko
‘I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We’d take a picnic, and I’d spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn’t get me out of there.’ – Olga Kurylenko
‘When I come in from the beach at night, I’m too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.’ – Nell Newman
‘New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I’m basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach… and I love rap.’ – Action Bronson
‘When you’re putting together a campaign for president, like I’ve been, that entails a lot of time. It’s not like I’ve been at the beach sipping a pina colada.’ – Ted Cruz
‘I think I need to film something tropical on a beach in a bar.’ – Richard Madden
‘In reality, if there are 200 people commenting on something online, it’s less than a grain of salt in a huge beach of humanity – who cares?’ – Suki Waterhouse
‘Now I’m the father of three young boys, I find myself using GoPro to film them more than anything – trips to the amusement park, the beach, the pool – just chasing them around as they grow.’ – Nick Woodman
‘I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach.’ – Elizabeth Blackburn
‘I didn’t understand the Kindle’s true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds – and without benefit of pants – I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips.’ – Jen Lancaster
‘I live in Palm Beach, where no one wants to hear bad news.’ – Jeff Greene
‘I like getting a tan, so if I’m lying on the beach, I want to get as much skin out as possible.’ – Eliza Doolittle
‘I love Radiohead, which most people don’t expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan, Carole King, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Beyonce Knowles, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Simon.’ – Eliza Doolittle
‘Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically.’ – Rivers Cuomo
‘I’ll be honest – my buddies are always going round saying, ‘Put a shirt on. Jeez,’ but I grew up on the beach. I grew up surfing. I grew up outdoors. I’ve sort of always liked being shirtless.’ – Scott Eastwood
‘I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I’m really a paddler on a beach.’ – Tamsin Greig
‘My personal style changes wherever I am. When I’m in Ibiza, I’m a bit girlier because there’s an opportunity to be more romantic and dress up for the beach scene. Whereas in New York, I tend to go for suiting and tailoring that almost feels like weaponry for the city – but I think I’m quite playful no matter what.’ – Jade Jagger
‘I went to high school in Virginia Beach, Va., and we had these guys – they were surfers. They didn’t like me, never talked to me. And if they didn’t like you, they threw toothpicks at you. After I did a play, it was different. I found out I was pretty good at something.’ – Stephen Furst
‘What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people’s problems.’ – Jane Green
‘As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach – great memories!’ – Zoe McLellan
‘Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don’t stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don’t, you’ll die there.’ – Matt Hughes
‘There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.’ – Sam Altman
‘There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world’s highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine.’ – John Burnside
‘The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.’ – John Burnside
‘Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season.’ – Marc Guggenheim
‘My first date ever, I was kind of nervous, so I was like, ‘I’m going to bring Brady to this walk on the beach with this girl,’ and she was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I have a King Charles Cavalier, too.’ I’m like, ‘Money, perfect, amazing.” – Charlie Puth
‘There are any number of reasons for visiting Filey. The beach is clean, long, and rarely crowded. The countryside is bold and handsome, with one maritime feature that deserves to be better known: the long, thin rock finger of the Brigg, pointing into the chilly grey waters of the North Sea.’ – David Hewson
‘I had the great opportunity to work with some of the greatest artists – the Beach Boys, the Temptations, the Four Tops. Otis Redding. Wilson Pickett. Stevie Wonder. So many great singers. And don’t forget Clarence Carter!’ – Percy Sledge
‘I went to high school in Redondo Beach, so a lot of people that went to my school are from Inglewood or Gardena. My best friend lives in Gardena.’ – Kiersey Clemons
‘I live three blocks away from the beach, so every day I walk down to the beach to run or go swimming. Hiking is a big one for me – so long as it’s something where I’m not thinking about working out, like in a contrived class or the gym.’ – Dylan Penn
‘I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!’ – Barry Sternlicht
‘Discovering L.A., in particular in the early ’80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys’ ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.’ – Zach Galligan
‘Ever since I was a little teen, I was told by my great-grandma that you’ve got to always have a good moisturizer. I use cocoa butter, and I use it for all things needing moisture – face, hair, throw it on those legs at the beach, get them all shiny. Cocoa butter is such a great product.’ – Sufe Bradshaw
‘Use visual cues to prompt yourself to put away more. A photograph of the beach house where you and your husband can envision spending your retirement will remind you to bump up the contribution to your 401(k); a snapshot of your child in a college sweatshirt can encourage you to put more into a 529 college savings plan.’ – Jean Chatzky
‘I don’t do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I’m a beach bum.’ – John Niven
”Up the Junction’ really made me understand the power of cinema to create a vivid sense of a community. When I went on to make ‘Bhaji on the Beach,’ it was this sense I tried to recreate.’ – Gurinder Chadha
‘I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn’t work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.’ – Damon Galgut
‘I wrote large chunks of ‘The Impostor’ and ‘The Good Doctor’ on a beach in Goa.’ – Damon Galgut
‘I’m from Long Beach – not the best area in the world – and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.’ – Manny Montana
‘I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
‘Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa’s sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters.’ – Tom Brokaw
‘I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today’s standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time.’ – Jeremy Corbyn
‘Sure, cricket on a beach on the isle of Jura is different from a Test match in a stadium in Galle, 6000 miles away, despite the sea air.’ – Romesh Gunesekera
‘In private, I may wear a bikini, but at the public beach with my kids, I would change bathing suits because they do not want to be hanging out with some old broad in a bikini.’ – Christie Brinkley
‘Views are overrated; it’s light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami’s South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room – it never gets old.’ – Michael Graves
‘In California, I’m more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I’m in New York.’ – Gigi Hadid
‘I’m from Malibu, California. Once I tell people, they’re like, ‘Oh, of course you’re from Malibu; that makes sense.’ I guess I am your typical just-graduated-high-school-in-Malibu type of girl. Our school was just across from Zuma beach, and we all wore Lululemons and bathing suit tops to go to the grocery store – no makeup, no shoes.’ – Gigi Hadid
‘I grew up on the beach, so I’m really comfortable in a bathing suit, playing volleyball, running around.’ – Gigi Hadid
‘I love fitness, yoga. I love fashion. On the weekends, I try to relax. I have pretty crazy weeks. I like spas and nice dinners. I’m not much of a club person. I like to hang on the beach in Malibu.’ – Charlotte McKinney
‘Don’t be afraid to go up to the hot girl on the beach.’ – Charlotte McKinney
‘Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin.’ – Michael Dirda
‘Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.’ – Steve Erickson
‘In their matching candy-stripe shirts, the Beach Boys were America’s biggest band of the early ’60s, transmitting utopian bulletins of summer without end to a cold and overcast nation.’ – Steve Erickson
‘The Doors formed on the beaches of Los Angeles, in what you might imagine is the tradition of local rock bands since the Beach Boys.’ – Steve Erickson
‘A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach, play outside sports. Being active outside. Going swimming, hanging by the pool, having a couple drinks, having a couple of your close buddies around, and just having a blast.’ – Rob Gronkowski
‘I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done ‘Regulate’ in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that’s where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.’ – Warren G
‘When I was nine, I was taught to ride a surfboard in Waikiki by the beach boy Rabbit Kekai.’ – Susanna Moore
‘Quite honestly, I live in California in the off season. Going off to Green Bay is just like two different walks of life – I hunt, fish, practice with firearms. Back in California, it’s spend time at the beach, go to the movies.’ – Clay Matthews III
‘My favorite hobby is writing and recording songs at my studio. I like to surf, but I don’t get a chance to do that as much as I’d like. I don’t live close to the beach. I also like to ski, but I don’t get to do that much, either.’ – Scott Weiland
‘My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.’ – Drake Bell
‘I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.’ – Drake Bell
‘I hope fans will go back and listen to the Beatles and the Beach Boys or Led Zeppelin, or put on ‘Tommy’ and let them experience like I did that moment when ‘Pinball Wizard’ comes on.’ – Drake Bell
‘I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid’s body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.’ – Rachel Bloom
‘If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time.’ – Sascha Radetsky
‘Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn’t enough. Because all of the sudden, in Egypt, my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one eight hundred miles long, next to the Nile.’ – Sarah Parcak
‘I’ve been interested in China ever since I was a kid. When I was a kid, I grew up in San Francisco about a mile from China Beach.’ – Russell Freedman
‘My body is for my tennis – it’s for my sport. I’m not a model at all. I don’t work out to go to the beach: I work out to play well and to do well on the court.’ – Stan Wawrinka
‘With any free time I have, I’d take a high energy work out class at Soul Cycle, grab an outdoor bite somewhere by the beach and then finish it off by lounging at my pool.’ – Tia Mowry
‘I don’t see myself as the next Carmen Dell’Orefice. I’d rather be fat and happy, sitting on a beach in Hawaii eating pizza.’ – Marie Helvin
‘Fresh seafood reminds me of Hawaii and eating raw ahi fish on the beach with a little soy sauce – instant sashimi.’ – Marie Helvin
‘All my stories take place on the West Coast – not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that.’ – Adrian Tomine
‘The Hamptons remind me of my childhood vacations. I love the beach, restaurants, and produce found on the East End.’ – Jean-Georges Vongerichten
‘When I was working at Sony, I used to live near the beach. I’d get up in the morning, walk my dog, go for a swim with dolphins, and in 25 minutes I would be at Sony.’ – Jon Feltheimer
‘I always had the most fun going to the beach on the weekends with my friends. In a way, we treated our beach style the way New Yorkers treat their street style, so I was always conscious of how I looked.’ – Izabel Goulart
‘I was pretty entrepreneurial as a kid. I had a lemonade stand. When I was 12, I arbitraged the price of 7-Eleven hot dogs; I’d buy the ones that are pre-wrapped with the bun and then sell them on the beach.’ – Stewart Butterfield
‘I have a lot of kids in my district who haven’t been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that’s 20 miles away.’ – Xavier Becerra
‘I think I’ve learned a lot just from being in the industry in general, and I never really thought about what to put in my hair to get a perfect beach wave until I started modeling. People will use certain products on me, and I learn that way.’ – Behati Prinsloo
‘For summer, I definitely love doing stuff outside. I love beach volleyball if you’re close to something like that. It’s really fun; you can do it with a lot of friends.’ – Behati Prinsloo
‘Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.’ – Bernard Sumner
‘I hang out with the right people, my friends that I’ve had since the beginning. We go to the beach, take walks, paint, see our family – just normal things that people who become famous lose sight of.’ – Kehlani
‘Virginia Beach is just such a melting pot for so many different things, and they just have so many influences. I would always say that the area definitely influences Play Cloths. The area itself just has so many influences, whether it be fashion, music, everything.’ – Pusha T
‘I remember being so homesick and realizing that where I came from was not something that existed in the cultural imagination outside the city. People used to think Miami was just partying in South Beach all the time.’ – Jennine Cap√≥ Crucet
‘If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.’ – James Wan
‘Dee Dee Ramone was the one who would go to Rockaway Beach, and he wrote that great song about it. He was the beach boy; he loved getting a tan and stuff, and he would ride the bus down Woodhaven Boulevard to Rockaway.’ – Tommy Ramone
”Rockaway Beach’ is a great song, and so is ‘Listen to My Heart.” – Tommy Ramone
‘I’ve fallen in love with Waikiki; the beach, the climate, the people, and the hotel – it really is a paradise.’ – Ivanka Trump
‘I am not like a pebble on the beach – a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child – the only fruit of his creative powers.’ – Mother Angelica
‘If I’m allowed it, I’m really looking forward to a little time on the couch and a little time on a beach in Brazil.’ – Leslie Odom, Jr.
‘Sometimes I want to be a normal kid and go to the beach, but it’s so motivating to think about going to the Olympics again. I’ll only be 22 years old after Rio, and I can do whatever I want.’ – Aly Raisman
‘There’s nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach.’ – Thomas Gibson
‘I’ve always been kind of uncomfortable just on the beach in a swimsuit. I’m never my most confident in a bikini on the beach, especially when you know people are looking at you, and they expect one thing because of what they see in the magazines, and you might not look that way. It’s always been a scary thing for me.’ – Chrissy Teigen
‘My best holidays were in Devon and Cornwall when the children were growing up. We always used to stay on farms because our children were pretty wild, and it was great going to the beach every day. We used to go to Launceston and Salcombe and all over those two counties.’ – Mary Berry
‘My husband proposed to me on the beach using candy.’ – Dylan Lauren
‘I remember the first time I heard ‘The Thunder Rolls.’ It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.’ – Zac Brown
‘I have always loved food, and for me, even if I was on a beach, I would be cooking food every day.’ – Kimbal Musk
‘That was the toughest thing I ever had to do: tell my son that his mum was gone. I was a bachelor living on the beach, but I had to pull it together very quick for my boy.’ – Bill Medley
‘I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body’s covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.’ – Dakota Fanning
‘Being a superstar… can make life very difficult, difficult to grow. So I like to visit with my friends, listen to some fine music, drink some good wine, perhaps take a ride in the country in a fine car, or… just walk along the beach.’ – Reggie Jackson
‘Being with Kyra is so natural for me; it’s the easiest aspect of my life. I know that I don’t need a beach or room service to be happy.’ – Kevin Bacon
‘I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn’t really recognise any famous people if they were there because I’m not very good at star-spotting.’ – Irvine Welsh
‘If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make ‘Glory’ now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach.’ – Edward Zwick
‘I don’t really go to the beach.’ – Glenn Danzig
‘Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.’ – Glenn Danzig
‘Of course I like to be tan, but now I try to avoid it. I don’t mind having a little glow, but now when I go to the beach, I put SPF 50 everywhere – either Avene or La Roche-Posay Anthelios. I have freckles, so as long as my little freckles come out, I’m happy.’ – Julia Restoin Roitfeld
‘I’m gonna open a small restaurant on the beach in Mexico. We’re only gonna have a few tables, and we’re only gonna cook what’s fresh that day. We’re gonna get back to the basics.’ – Guy Fieri
‘You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You could see how tan you could get your Pac-Man.’ – Jack McBrayer
‘I’m gonna open a small restaurant on the beach in Mexico. We’re only gonna have a few tables, and we’re only gonna cook what’s fresh that day. We’re gonna get back to the basics… Real food for real people.’ – Guy Fieri
‘I’ve done drag races. I’ve done Long Beach Grand Prix stuff. I’ve done NASCAR stuff. Just about anything carwise under the sun, I’ve done. Whether it be driving schools or racing schools, I’ve had a passion for it for a long time.’ – Bill Goldberg
‘I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I saw these college guys and session players playing this fusion Muzak stuff. It was just a lot of notes, and the more notes they played, the more it kept them from expressing anything. So I came back home and got out my Zeppelin albums.’ – Jeff Buckley
‘As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It’s legal to follow me. It’s legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can’t call the police or ask them to leave.’ – Lady Gaga
‘I grew up in San Diego, California, and I spent a lot of time in the summer basically living in a bathing suit, you know, get in the car and drive straight to the beach and spend the entire day in that thing, so I always approached bathing suits thinking that they are very much like outfits.’ – Emily Ratajkowski
‘I love the snow! I actually cannot stand the beach.’ – Dove Cameron
‘The social scene in Daytona Beach was simple. The white cats surf, and the blacks play music.’ – Duane Allman
‘Sarasota in 1974 was a city of 46,459 people, the 73rd-largest market in the country and sixth-largest in Florida, according to Arbitron Ratings. To supplement my meager salary, I was a bartender at Big Daddy’s on St. Armand’s Circle and a sailing instructor at nearby Lido Beach.’ – Craig Sager
‘My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.’ – Nick Saban
‘There is not much sun, but I didn’t move to Manchester to go to the beach.’ – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
‘I am a total beach person, and that’s why I just love coming to Vizag. The city also reminds me of the peaceful defence colonies of my childhood.’ – Rakul Preet Singh
‘There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.’ – Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
‘Huntington Beach is like ground zero for surfers.’ – Peter Heller
‘The beach is still a public place, and that’s an amazing grace about Chicago. We have so many problems, but the water always stays. That inspires me and keeps me inspired about the city and keeps me hopeful.’ – Jamila Woods
‘I was a West Hollywood and Laurel Canyon girl for years, and it was so central that I felt like we’d moved to Portland when we came to Malibu, but now I can’t imagine living anywhere else. We have the best of all worlds, hilltop living, 15 minutes from town, with the beach at the bottom of the road.’ – Sonya Walger
‘I don’t know anything about bullying in Huntington Beach specifically, but I would assume it’s very similar to other places.’ – Jay Asher
‘SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete’s dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone’s help – it’s perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.’ – Maika Monroe
‘Cape Town is beautiful. It’s an extraordinary beach town with mountain ranges on either side.’ – Michael O’Keefe
‘I’m really into coconut oil for everything. I cook it, eat it, put it in my hair, and use it as body lotion. I put it on my face, too – day cream, night cream, whatever. I love the smell. It reminds me of the beach. I’m not particular on what brand as long as it’s organic.’ – Juliette Lewis
‘I only wear SPF if I’m going to the beach.’ – Juliette Lewis
‘I really like Los Angeles. I like the weather, the openness of it, the beach, the mountains, the desert. I find it inspiring. I get quite a lot of writing done out there.’ – David Thewlis
‘Growing up in Florida was really amazing. I spent most my time at the beach.’ – Cassadee Pope
‘Whenever I tell people I’m from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.’ – Barry Jenkins
‘Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn’t know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.’ – Ophelia Lovibond
‘If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you’re there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly… then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.’ – Jack Ramsay
‘I’m writing all the time. I want to do this forever. I want to have a box set someday. I can’t stop. The day I stop being inspired to write songs, I’ll go sit on the beach – until I become inspired again.’ – Brett Eldredge
”Laguna Beach’ was definitely not as manufactured as ‘The Hills’ was for me. ‘Laguna Beach’ was more putting us in situations where we normally wouldn’t be in or hanging out with people we wouldn’t necessarily hang out with.’ – Kristin Cavallari
‘It happened on ‘Laguna Beach’ where you don’t know what’s real and fake, and I saw cast members who couldn’t distinguish what was real and what was fake anymore. It was kind of scary to see, so I kept them very separate so that I didn’t go crazy.’ – Kristin Cavallari
‘The only time producers fed me lines on ‘Laguna Beach’ were more fake phone calls or pickup scenes. We’d film for nine months out of the year, and then they would start cutting episodes together, and they would realize that they needed a specific scene.’ – Kristin Cavallari
‘My dad was very excited about me doing ‘Laguna Beach,’ and he thought it was a great opportunity. My mom, however, living in Chicago, was a little nervous. I mean she had some reservations about MTV. I think there was a point in my life where I wasn’t even allowed to watch MTV!’ – Kristin Cavallari
‘I was kind of a tough girl. And I guess that came through, like, moving around, my parents getting a divorce, different step-families, and stuff like that. I’d been through a little bit more than most people who are just from Laguna Beach.’ – Kristin Cavallari
‘There is a lot of California in my… sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.’ – Brett Young
‘I’m still obsessed with the beach whenever I’m home; when I’m on the beach, it feels like home to me.’ – Brett Young
‘I love going to the beach. I like just walking around South Beach, but sometimes, when you’re famous, it can be a little difficult.’ – Nicky Jam
‘Whenever it was spring break, someone would always have a guitar down at the beach, and they’d play a random song, and I’d sing. Eventually, hearing compliments from people saying I sounded pretty good stuck with me.’ – Cole Swindell
‘When I was in my mid-twenties, I was a copy editor at Doubleday, and for a brief period, it was my job to help shepherd Pat Conroy’s ‘Beach Music’ into the world.’ – Chris Pavone
‘I went to school in Long Beach, and all the seniors I used to kick it with called me Pac.’ – Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
‘To walk into a studio, for me, is just like walking onto a beach or something.’ – Steven Van Zandt
‘Geo-stationary orbit is actually real estate – you can only put so many satellites up there. It’s like waterfront property at the beach. Everyone builds the biggest thing they can put up there.’ – Jim Cantrell
‘When you’re an actress – or just a woman – a lot of the exercise classes that are offered are so sort of male gaze-skewed. It’s all working out for the beach and not for function at all.’ – Betty Gilpin
‘Stephanie and I got married publicly on the beach, in front of friends and family, and the local police shut down the highway for us to cross the street back to my cousin’s house. Cars backed up for miles, and everybody in town cheered.’ – Tig Notaro
‘Ten days after my ‘one-step’ reconstruction, I was on the beach with my daughter.’ – Jessica St. Clair
‘In my mind, I imagined L.A. to be skyscrapers on the beach. Of course, that’s not what it actually looks like. And growing up watching ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ and ‘Melrose Place,’ I always had an obsession with L.A. and California in general.’ – Bonnie McKee
‘I always had the fantasy of Hollywood and Los Angeles and the beach, not realizing that Hollywood was so very far from the beach.’ – Bonnie McKee
‘I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ and ‘The Taming of the Shrew’. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month.’ – Jeffrey Tambor
‘I started ‘The Daily Show’ when I was 22. I was going to class at Long Beach.’ – Jessica Williams
‘I get it that the media is going to show the worst part, because that’s the part that people want to see. But they have not represented Israel or Palestine, however people want to call it, they haven’t represented it well at all. Go to the beach! You won’t know this place from California.’ – GloZell
‘All of the beach volleyball coaches and all the top players, everything is based out of Southern California.’ – Brooke Sweat
‘Started playing indoor volleyball in 5th grade. Started playing club volleyball when I was 15. Played in high school and at Florida Gulf Coast University. Started playing beach volleyball after graduating from FGCU.’ – Brooke Sweat
‘Beach volleyball has taken me all around the world.’ – Brooke Sweat
‘In beach volleyball, there are only two of you on the court, so it’s so easy for things to go south and take everything personal.’ – Brooke Sweat
‘Hydration is really important, particularly as a beach volleyball player.’ – Brooke Sweat
‘Being from Florida and playing so many tournaments on that beach in Fort Lauderdale, I just want to be on that beach playing.’ – Brooke Sweat
‘My perfect beach town isn’t a fancy resort or glitzy planned community. It’s a place with a hometown grocery that has decent meat, seafood, and a deli; a couple of ice cream shops; and a handful of good restaurants – where the island-wide dress code is ‘no shoes, no shirt, no problem.” – Mary Kay Andrews
‘My ideal beach house has bookshelves full of paperbacks that can tolerate a little sand, a DVD library that includes some Disney classics for the little ones, board games, and jigsaw puzzles. At least one big flatscreen television is a must.’ – Mary Kay Andrews
‘Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I’ve spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast – as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West.’ – Mary Kay Andrews
‘I was the kind of kid that always loved babies. I was, you know, four years old, and I would have my baby doll that I would bring with me everywhere and fake breastfeed on the beach and diaper.’ – Ari Graynor
‘After a long day at the beach, a hamburger and fries usually does the trick.’ – Adam Scott
‘Chasing kids on the beach and sleeping is the closest I come to exercising while in Hawaii.’ – Adam Scott
‘So many articles said, ”China Beach’ is uncancellable,’ but when they dragged it on, I started to have doubts.’ – Robert Picardo
”Twin Peaks’ is like a movie; ‘China Beach’ is like a movie. These are two of the most cinematic shows on television, and they belong together.’ – Robert Picardo
‘I have played some wonderful leading roles on stage and had the whole ‘China Beach’ years where I really played a leading man on that. That was a fun change for a character actor. But I’m perfectly happy going back to building my gallery of memorable character roles.’ – Robert Picardo
‘Even though my face has gotten more familiar with doing ‘China Beach’ and ‘The Wonder Years,’ I’m the kind of actor that people thought, ‘Gee, that guy looks familiar. He must have put my storm windows in. He works at my bank or something.” – Robert Picardo
‘We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong – I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.’ – Walter Becker
‘I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ and ‘Biloxi Blues.” – Jon Tenney
‘It sounds kind of cliche, and a lot of people say it about our music, but I think a good place to hear our music for the first time is on vacation, or somewhere warm, on the beach or something like that.’ – St. Lucia
‘I enjoy going to the beach, relaxing with my wife, going out to dinner, and having a good time.’ – Frank Vincent
‘I got a part-time job as a cashier at Home Depot in North Miami Beach on April 1, 1985. I didn’t expect to be in retail all my life, but retail was ingrained in me from my grandmother. I enjoyed interacting with people, and I got opportunities.’ – Ann-Marie Campbell
‘My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.’ – Jesmyn Ward
‘There was a summer in college where I worked for a stretch picking up garbage at the beach. On the early shift, it was very meditative walking the shoreline and crisscrossing the sand, picking up the junk people had dropped or tossed or that the ocean had returned. And there was this strange fantasy element to it.’ – Nathan Englander
‘A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it’s photogenic to see him working, and the Caribbean is extremely photogenic, so poverty is photogenic, and a lot of people are photographed in their poverty, and sometimes it’s kind of exploited.’ – Derek Walcott
‘We listen to oldies when we go on tour. Beach Boys radio was really clutch; that was definitely our favorite Pandora station.’ – G-Eazy
‘I look at bands like the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and Blur, and those are the bands I want to be in company with because their songwriting is intelligent, and yet you don’t need to be a musical genius to pick it up.’ – Mark Foster
”I Get Around’ came on one day. I’d never heard the Beach Boys before. The sound was so fresh to me. That was the first time when I truly was gripped by the power of music. It opened my eyes to the heights that music can achieve.’ – Mark Foster
‘We’ve grown up on the Beach Boys and the Beatles and Blur and Bowie and the Clash. Also E.L.O. and Hall and Oates. Those are all artists who write songs that are accessible but still left of center. It’s intelligent pop. There’s still something different and complex about it.’ – Mark Foster
‘It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.’ – Fat Joe
‘I think the Port of Palm Beach has an opportunity to thrive, if they can figure out how to do it with community support.’ – Lois Frankel
‘I ran for Congress in 1992, but I lost the election, and I really dropped the idea of ever serving in Congress. Eventually, I went home and became the mayor of my city, West Palm Beach. I was mayor for eight years.’ – Lois Frankel
‘My body’s urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.’ – Derek Walcott
‘I don’t feel I’ve arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.’ – Derek Walcott
‘This next to never happens, but if I had time to sit on a beach and read, I wouldn’t read a cozy. But I’ve read cozies. That’s how I got interested in crime fiction: because my mother was a soft-boiled reader.’ – Michael Connelly
‘There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge, you have heard music that makes raise your eyebrow and ask, ‘What kind of music is that?” – Om Malik
‘I live on the beach, and I always will.’ – Nathan Phillips
‘I like being in warm weather. I find that relaxes me. I like being near water. I like sitting on a beach and sort of hearing the water, watching waves break, looking at the shimmering. I find that really relaxing.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman
‘I am definitely a beach person. In fact, I am so much a beach person that my wife is allergic to beaches now.’ – Barun Sobti
‘I’m a walker, whether that’s a stroll on the beach at sunset or getting up at eight o’clock on a Sunday morning and doing an eight-hour hike through a canyon. It’s Zen time for me.’ – Lara Pulver
‘When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word ‘freedom.’ In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.’ – Donna Langley
‘I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature a lot and plays and things like that.’ – Barry Barish
‘Donald Trump was in a tuxedo, standing next to his award: a statue of a palm tree, as tall as a toddler. It was 2010, and Trump was being honored by a charity – the Palm Beach Police Foundation – for his ‘selfless support’ of its cause. His support did not include any of his own money.’ – David Fahrenthold
‘The Palm Beach Police Foundation is a client of Trump’s. They pay to rent out Mar-a-Lago every year.’ – David Fahrenthold
‘The biggest correlation you find is with Trump’s own personal and business interests. He lives in Palm Beach part of the year, where charity galas are a big part of the life. And he runs a club in Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, that depends a lot on being rented out by charities, who can pay as much as $275,000 per night to rent out his club.’ – David Fahrenthold
‘The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe.’ – Janet Malcolm
‘There’s a Diebenkorn painting – ‘Ocean Park No. 68′ – that is the color of a swimming pool and always reminds me of summers at the beach.’ – Tory Burch
‘It’s just fantastic to have someone like the Duchess of Cambridge wear the brand. I think there are often misconceptions about who the brand is for, but it’s not just a 20-year-old blonde girl on the beach, and Kate is testament to that.’ – Matthew Williamson
‘My collections are full of adaptable pieces: within the energetic lifestyle of L.A., they are able to take you from the beach in Malibu to the red carpet in Hollywood.’ – Matthew Williamson
‘I love L.A. You definitely can’t beat the weather, and being close to the beach is nice. It’s a good town.’ – Blake Griffin
‘My parents would drive us to Florida every spring in this big old, rusy Suburban, and we’d collect stuff on the beach for our aquarium back in Ohio; we had this big saltwater aquarium back in Ohio. Every time we found anything, any mollusk, my mom would bring out the guidebook and quiz us on what it was, so that stuff was built in early.’ – Anthony Doerr
‘I love to go to the beach or stay at the pool with my girls – enjoy the sun and the water as much as I can, take rides with the bicycles, and spend time with my family.’ – Bianca Balti
‘My dad and stepmom live in Mobile, Ala., and spend their vacation time an hour’s drive away in Orange Beach, Ala. This means that, throughout my life, I have regularly vacationed there as well.’ – W. Kamau Bell
‘Whenever I tell people in Berkeley, Calif., where I live, that I’m headed to the beach in Alabama, they are shocked. Most people outside of the Gulf Coast have no idea that Alabama has beaches – even though if you look at a map of Alabama, there is a part of it that looks as if it should belong to Florida.’ – W. Kamau Bell
‘At worst, spring break in Daytona Beach feels feral – like everybody is trying to re-create scenes from the movie ‘The Hangover.” – W. Kamau Bell
‘When I was a toddler, my father cut hair in the townhouse we had shared together in Long Beach, California, where Dad was stationed with the U.S. Navy. The buzz of clippers consistently hummed as he gave fades to his coworkers, my uncles, and my brother, but his clippers were never oiled and plugged in for my head.’ – Janet Mock
‘I’m a California kid, so I love the beach.’ – Sam Mikulak
‘I am from Trinidad and Tobago, so I actually grew up in Tobago on the beach, just running around, playing, watching really creative people, and being exposed to really deep, rich stories from a young age.’ – Winston Duke
‘I know I’m not creating transcendent works that will someday be taught in college. All I do is entertain. I try to entertain others by sending them into another world for a few hours. When I see my books read on the beach, the pages dabbed with suntan lotion, then I feel as if I’ve done my job.’ – Sandra Brown
‘I’ve always had this thing for swimming pools – I think they’re much sexier and far more glamorous than the beach, in a way. You dress differently when you’re spending a day at an amazing pool than you would dress for the beach.’ – Michael Bastian
‘Celebrities, the beach, and Coachella, that’s what everyone thinks about when they think of Los Angeles. Then you see these people living in Bel-Air and Beverly Hills, and they’re so chic and have so much style.’ – Michael Bastian
‘Research the venue and location before outfit shopping, as it helps set the mood and style focus: a traditional wedding in the countryside offers a different set of sartorial rules to a tropical, beach vibe, for instance.’ – Jenny Packham
‘Who doesn’t want that salty beach hair?’ – Nina Agdal
‘Rock bottom is a crisis… and everyone wants to avoid crisis. But what ‘crisis’ means literally is ‘to sift’ – like a child who goes to the beach, lifts up the sand, and watches all the sand fall away, hoping that there’s treasure left over. That’s what crisis does.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton
‘Architects have big egos. We like to think we’re creating the pyramids and they’re going to be around for thousands of years. And it’s a joke because they’re not even going to last our lifetime. I built a home for umpteen gazillion dollars on a gorgeous piece of property in Palm Beach, and 11 years later somebody else bought it and knocked it down.’ – Peter Marino
‘I think I’m generally more inspired when I’m away from technology. Whether that is on a beach somewhere or just in your room with your phones and screens shut off, I think that quietness is often very inspiring.’ – Yael Cohen
‘I remember so well my father’s complete concentration when he went to the studio. Everything he did, every movement he made, he did with complete concentration. Then, after he had finished work, he would go to the beach or whatever, and then he would enjoy play and forget about his work.’ – Claude Picasso
‘Even before I had ever seen ‘Beach Blanket Babylon,’ I had a similar aesthetic: colorful and sparkly.’ – Chris March
‘I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: ‘Beach Blanket’ was one of the most important experiences of my whole life. It’s part of me.’ – Chris March
‘My parents had bought a video camera for us to film Christmases and other family events. I took it down to the beach, set up a tripod, and I would grab two other friends, and we’d take turns filming and surfing. Then, at the end of the day, I’d go home and I’d make a video for everybody to watch.’ – Taylor Steele
‘If I’m in a hurry, I will have the South Beach Ricotta Muffins. Some mornings, I’ll just have turkey bacon and scrambled eggs.’ – Jessie James Decker
‘I run on the beach, surf, and bike.’ – Gretchen Bleiler
‘I like to escape to the beach and kind of ground myself whenever I can.’ – Lili Reinhart
‘I just love spending the day at the beach and then staying inside all night.’ – Lili Reinhart
‘I’m the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end.’ – Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
‘I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing ‘Surfin’ U.S.A.,’ I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me.’ – Joey Ramone
‘We didn’t worry about getting a venue or asking permission. We started out guerrilla. We were illegal, going down to the beach to burn this thing.’ – Larry Harvey
‘I would be doing anything to avoid a 9-5 job and high heels. Lifeguard, beach volleyball player, whatever.’ – Julie Foudy
‘The ‘beach read’ has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact, the term only emerged in the 1990s, usually in book trade publications such as ‘Booklist’ and ‘Publisher’s Weekly.” – Michelle Dean
‘Many people, I’ve noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach reads; others thought all romances are. Some people thought only mass market paperbacks are eligible for beach read standards.’ – Michelle Dean
‘Nobody wants to stay in Green Bay and run laps in the snow and go boxing in the gym. Everybody has what works for them, and I feel as though this works for me – it keeps me hungry, it keeps me with that edge. Other guys get a hard day’s work in, but they’re on the beach afterward.’ – Mike Daniels
‘I like to go to the beach, have a bonfire, and play music.’ – Colbie Caillat
‘Every time I turn on the TV, it infuriates me. You’ll see an ad for Advil or Viagra and hear some monotonous voice warn you about even the smaller side effects like headaches or nausea. When you see a tampon commercial, it’s all happy teenage girls running along the beach in bikinis. The dangers are beyond minimized.’ – Lauren Wasser
‘Before I left to go to college, I was living in Orange County, Anaheim Hills. And prior to that, I was in Long Beach.’ – Omar Benson Miller
‘If the Beastie Boys and the Beach Boys and Pet Shop Boys can stay boys, so can we.’ – Howie Dorough
‘When I was a teenager, we used to go to North Carolina with my family, and we’d all pile into, like, a beach house. We’d rent, like, two or three next to each other, because I have a humungous family.’ – Lauren Cohan
‘I have a thing for Baltimore: the word itself, the place – I don’t know where it comes from; it’s just a weird city. I have a song called ‘Baltimore,’ but I’m not from there. I’ve driven through there a lot. We’ve played a couple of shows there, but it’s not a big market. Some good bands come from there, though. Animal Collective and Beach House.’ – Stephen Malkmus
‘I’ve always loved listening to music on my own, but there’s another side of me that is just fascinated by… like Goa trance, for example – just a rave on a beach in India, you know? Where there’s someone that’s spinning the music, and it’s just this free-flowing, continuous energy.’ – Kevin Parker
‘I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I’m the dude who never gets on the board.’ – Kevin Parker
‘I used to come to the gay pride parades in New York. I’ve been to a few down in Miami Beach, if memory serves.’ – Elvis Duran
‘I’m one of three boys raised by a single mom in a military beach town in the South.’ – Jason Winston George
‘We run on the beach some days, and others, we run hills behind the gym. We also do several hours of grappling each week as mixed with some intense cardio in the ring.’ – Chuck Liddell
‘I went to a wedding in St. Maarten, and we took a boat ride over to Anguilla for a day. We went to a beach that had the whitest sand I had ever seen before in my life. I was in the water up to the middle of my chest and could still see my feet. It was the clearest water.’ – Tony Rock
‘As a young boy growing up in New York City, we would spend our summers on the South Fork of Long Island. My dad would take me down to the beach at low tide. We would walk a mile down to the jetties, and he would lower me by my ankles into the crevices between the massive boulders to grab at huge ropes of mussels.’ – Andrew Zimmern
‘As a teenager, I spent my days at the beach and nights cooking in Long Island restaurants.’ – Andrew Zimmern
‘The albums ‘Heaven On Earth’ and ‘Runaway Horses’ and ‘Live Your Life Be Free’ were harking back to when I was a young girl and listening to Californian radio – lush productions, complicated melodies, harmonies like the Beach Boys and the Mamas and Papas. That’s what those albums remind me of.’ – Belinda Carlisle
‘The most important thing to Ben and me was starting a family, so as soon as we got engaged, we booked Gurney’s in Montauk – which is just a few miles down the beach from our summer home – as our wedding venue a full year and a half out, and then we immediately started trying to get pregnant.’ – Jennifer Hyman
‘I’ve immersed myself in reading more and more of American literature, but no editor has asked me to comment on Jonathan Franzen or Jennifer Egan. It is assumed I’m an expert on writers who need a little less suntan lotion at the beach.’ – Amitava Kumar
‘I kind of assumed all of Australia was like the Gold Coast – so I was telling people Australians just work out and go to the beach. Like, Australia has it figured out! But then I went to Sydney, and it was nothing like the Gold Coast – but I still loved it.’ – Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
‘As a kid in the projects, I always looked forward to spring break. We’d either have cousins visiting us for the week from up north, and we’d all play sports together, or sometimes I’d go to Vero Beach and hang with my cousins there.’ – Flo Rida
‘My first love was basketball, but that wasn’t gonna launch me, and I knew I had to get into other things. So me and my friends, we started making mix CDs and going down to South Beach or to the parking lot at Pitbull concerts to spend all night hustling.’ – Flo Rida
‘I was born in New York. I grew up in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.’ – Tab Hunter
‘I grew up in Imperial Beach, surfing and going to the beach – my son plays baseball at the park.’ – Sonny Sandoval
‘I’ve never been to a beach party before. We have gravel-pit parties in Alaska.’ – John Gourley
‘As a child, I spent a lot of summers going to the beach with family friends.’ – Jenny Han
‘I love the beach.’ – Hunx
‘I didn’t want to be one of the Beach Boys or one of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band. I mean, we appreciated that music. But I didn’t want to grow a beard to look like Roy Wood just because I liked him.’ – Rick Nielsen
‘I like swimming. I like the beach. I like fast cars. I like speedboats.’ – Marcel Wanders
‘My natural state is a state of an explorer – a performer, but someone who wants to explore their experience and reflect on their experience more than just lie on the beach. Even when I go on vacations, I get stressed out if I’m at the beach for, like, two days. I’m like, ‘Can’t we do something? I can’t just sit there.” – David Harbour
‘I try not to dwell too much on it, but I think everyone gets worried about showing off all their flaws on the beach.’ – Debra Stephenson
‘Many beach locales offer surf lessons, and you get a different perspective of the ocean when you’re out on the water.’ – Katie Lee
‘My grandpa and I, whenever we would go to Myrtle Beach, we couldn’t wait to get there and have fried seafood.’ – Katie Lee
‘I have always wanted to write a novel, and I tried many times but could never find the right story. One day, I was walking on the beach, and the idea for ‘Groundswell’ hit me. I went into the house and started writing and never stopped.’ – Katie Lee
‘Tragedies such as Nevil Shute’s ‘On the Beach’ and Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr Strangelove’ are so powerful because there’s an underlying assumption that this did not have to happen. It is empowering.’ – David Brin
‘My company was based in Palm Beach, Florida, but when ‘Bar Rescue’ took off, I knew I had to move west. It was a choice between L.A. and Vegas. I have a lot of friends in Vegas, and it became my choice. I’m so glad because I love it here. There’s a real sense of community. It’s a big town that feels like a small town. Everybody knows everybody.’ – Jon Taffer
‘I remember being obsessed with ‘The Score’ by The Fugees. I used to listen to a lot of really melodic music with a lot of harmonies. The Beach Boys used to make me happy, and Simon and Garfunkel, and I used to listen to a lot of film soundtracks as well.’ – Dan Smith
‘I’m a beach bum, so I’m more comfortable in western wear.’ – Ileana D’Cruz
‘I’ve had inquiries for things like TV show ‘Splash,’ where people go out in front of the whole nation in a bikini. But I think bikinis are just for the beach.’ – Rachel Riley
‘Long Beach is fast. Every day, you hear something bad; somebody gets hurt.’ – Nate Dogg
‘The Harbor Area is everything – Carson, Wilmington, San Pedro, Long Beach, that whole little bubble that I grew up in. I always throw it up after I finish fighting, I always throw up the Harbor Area. Out of pride. It made me who I am. It brought me my goods; it brought me my bads. It molded me into who I am.’ – Brian Ortega
‘I wasn’t really a beach boy. I was a city boy, afraid of the ocean.’ – Brian Ortega
‘I’ve never lived in Los Angeles. I’ve always lived 30 miles away in Long Beach.’ – Wendi McLendon-Covey
‘I swam in the Great Barrier Reef when I was five months pregnant. I went on the bullet train in Japan, which was so much fun, and getting to see Mount Fuji. I did Mykonos and its black volcanic beach. Most of the fun times I’ve had have something to do with a vacation. I love traveling.’ – Shanola Hampton
‘Of course I would buy a house in Marbella. In Marbella, you can buy a house by the beach, relax there, and later you can go there on holiday and everything.’ – Carlos Tevez
‘I have a knack for always ending up in L.A. whenever I have some days off, because I really like going there… and I really like hanging out on the beach and all the hiking and opportunities and things you can do outside.’ – Stella Maxwell
‘You put me on a treadmill, and I will run away, but you take me out on a beach, and I can run for an hour.’ – Nushrat Bharucha
‘As much as I love beach holidays, I do really like to get out and about and explore. It’s why I like Los Angeles: because I can easily drive to Malibu or Santa Monica to see what they have to offer. I get itchy feet if I stay still too long in one place when I’m abroad.’ – Alesha Dixon
‘I always take an iPod and iPod speakers so that when you’re in the hotel room you can have it on, or when you’re at the beach you can put it on quietly. Music can really set the tone for your holiday.’ – Alesha Dixon
‘I prefer hanging out with my small group of friends, maybe head to the beach once in three months, pursue my hobbies, and just be happy with the small joys of life.’ – Naga Chaitanya
‘I was on the beach, and I was just thinking to myself that I have no one place where I actually feel like I’m at home. I came up with the idea of having no roots – never being grounded to a certain place but having your home with people who you love.’ – Alice Merton
‘I took Kira to a nice dinner at a place called Moonshadows in Malibu, which is by the ocean, and I organized it so a school of young dolphins swam by our table. I took her for a long walk on the beach after dinner, and I told her all the things I love about her. Then I asked her to marry me.’ – John Morrison
‘I only properly played golf when I was 15 or 16. The best course I’ve done? Pebble Beach in California.’ – James Milner
‘Living at the beach, it’s hard to get out of the sun.’ – Stephen Dorff
‘If you noticed, I wear high-water pants and white socks, which is inspired by the mod ’60s, like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, what have you. That style of dress during that time is really, really dope to me.’ – Ashton Sanders
‘In Chennai, we have the beach for entertainment, but in places like Trichy, Salem, and Coimbatore, movies are the only entertainment.’ – Aishwarya Rajesh
‘I cannot lie on the beach or by a swimming pool. I think I’m too Nordic to like a lot of relentless sun.’ – Sandi Toksvig
‘I’ve covered tornadoes and other natural disasters. I wasn’t on the ground for Katrina. But as our helicopter descended toward Mexico Beach, I just saw an entire town gone. Leveled, with the exception of a condo still standing here and there.’ – Brooke Baldwin
‘It’s definitely different than living in Los Angeles or Miami Beach, but Milwaukee is still a great city in its own right. As far as the baseball goes, it’s been everything and more than I thought it was going to be.’ – Christian Yelich
‘When I grew up, I lived in a neighborhood that had social clubs. It’s never delightful to glamorize one’s youth. My neighborhood was poor. But people felt part of the neighborhood. This was in Rockaway Beach, Long Island.’ – Sherry Turkle
‘I am a big fan of Bournemouth, having enjoyed many happy hours on its sandy beach and crazy golf course.’ – Victoria Coren Mitchell
‘I am not a major jet-setter; I am a simple man who likes to be on a good beach, have a little swim, and play beach football.’ – Jim Sarbh
‘I’m no good at sitting on a beach and doing nothing.’ – Owen Farrell
‘Throughout my career, people have totally confused ‘Laguna Beach’ and ‘The O.C.’ I think, in people’s minds, it all kind of got blurred over time.’ – Mischa Barton
‘In an ideal world, the season would end, and the players would have two to three weeks by the beach. You’d have four to five weeks of preparation, and then you’d play the tournament.’ – Roy Hodgson
‘I spent 10 days on the beach and slept pretty much all day, every day. It was the perfect place to have a rest.’ – Petra Kvitova
‘Whilst filming ‘Jurassic Park,’ I watched a hurricane approaching the beach in Hawaii. My co-worker Laura Dern and I thought we might die, but we managed to laugh about it later.’ – Sam Neill
‘When he proposed to me, Yash said one of the nicest things ever. He spoke of a vision in which he saw himself, his wife, and a stroller, with a baby, on a scenic beach. And the lady in his vision was me. That sealed the deal for me.’ – Radhika Pandit
‘It doesn’t matter where I am, what I do, whether I’m in the sauna, whether I’m on the beach, whether I’m with my girl at the spa – man’s never hot. It’s that simple.’ – Michael Dapaah
‘I live a life very similar to my characters in that I live a full-blown summer fantasy from June to September. I go to the beach and work there every day.’ – Elin Hilderbrand
‘I’m not going to give quotes about inventing the ‘beach book,’ but I was certainly at the forefront of it.’ – Elin Hilderbrand
‘The nice thing about e-books is that if you’re sitting on the beach and you finish one Elin Hilderbrand novel and don’t want to get out of your chair, you can sit there, buy the rest, and load them on your device.’ – Elin Hilderbrand
‘I like the beach in the summer and the mountains in the winter.’ – Lance Stroll
‘I’m terrible at relaxing and holidays. For me, a day off is going to the gym. I could never just lie on the beach and read a book.’ – Grigor Dimitrov
‘I’m always out in the sun. I’m a big hiker and beach gal, so its really important for me to always have SPF on, which is something that you’ve got to find for your skin type.’ – Olivia Holt
‘I liked ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs,’ which I did with Neil Simon. I kind of was playing him, as Eugene Morris Jerome, and I played that a few times at the very beginning of my career.’ – Matthew Broderick
‘One habit that’s important for keeping me mentally healthy is having meaningful conversations with the people around me. That’s a habit that fuels my body and my mind. I also like to go to the beach and write, and I’ve been trying to focus on giving myself time to be alone.’ – Katelyn Ohashi
‘I love to get to Dubai. It’s an impressive place, and you can do lots of different things there – beach, shopping, and other fun things.’ – Jordan Henderson
‘My father never left my side; on the street, on the beach, he was always with me. He helped me on the road to becoming a professional, and now I play just for him.’ – Rivaldo
‘I think every person that brings a beach ball into a WWE arena should get ejected for life.’ – Cesaro
‘As I’m a complete water baby, being by the beach helps me relax.’ – Shweta Tripathi
‘I got really into surfing, and that was my life from when I was 10 years old to 18. I surfed almost every day, and it was all I cared about – I was a sand-in-the-bed, total beach bum.’ – Charlie McDowell
‘I love St. Ives and Fowey. I have childhood memories of the Headland Hotel, where ‘The Witches’ was filmed, standing on the Fistral Beach. There’s something about packing a bikini and Wellington boots – and I’m away.’ – Suranne Jones
‘I know what it’s like listening to Aphex Twin driving down the beach.’ – Flying Lotus
‘Our annual school physics trip was always to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, as it’s such a good example of Newtonian physics. You can learn about centrifugal force and Newton’s first law from the roller coasters, and the Viking long boat is a giant pendulum. It’s good for children to understand that science underpins all these brilliant things.’ – Ben Miller
‘I’m from Clearwater, Florida, and I love Nashville so much I don’t even really miss the beach.’ – Brooke Hogan
‘Our home in Dubai is a beach house, so it’s more casual and not formal in its tone. It’s a holiday home. We are mostly in the pool or on the beach or in the sun. It’s an outdoor place for the family. So there are mudbikes, a boat, football posts, and the pool is heated.’ – Gauri Khan
‘This is what I love doing. I am very easy with it. It comes instantly and quickly to me. And I don’t need to spend hours designing… I could design on a beach or while travelling.’ – Gauri Khan
‘My first thought for the off season is to go somewhere hot and on the beach.’ – Alex Scott
‘I love the beach; I grew up on the Baltic Sea. I love the beach. I love the water. I love surfing and swimming.’ – Lana
‘The first win was racing my Late Model at Myrtle Beach. It was twin 50s. We’d usually run a 100-lap feature, but it rained the week before, so they split the next weekend in half and made twin 50s. And I won the first one.’ – Dale Earnhardt Jr.
‘The impact of our warming planet will likely lead to even stricter zoning and building codes to account for the rising sea levels visible in places like South Beach – even on days without a cloud in sky.’ – Patrick Murphy
‘I really love the beach.’ – Samin Nosrat
‘The beach has always been a constant in my life.’ – Samin Nosrat
‘Fads get hot in California. A good idea can come from Des Moines, but it’s not going to be anything there. Then it’ll hit Venice Beach or Westwood and go all around the country, back to Des Moines.’ – Ken Hakuta
‘I prefer to go to the beach in the summer!’ – Massimiliano Allegri
‘I’ve turned vegetarian and am on an ayurvedic diet. I go to the beach every day, and I feel the creative energy of Auroville.’ – Amala Paul
‘While growing up, I used to go to the beach, as I used to find peace there.’ – K. L. Rahul
‘I love skiing. What on earth have I been doing on a beach all this time? I mean, that’s for morons – you can get sunburn and really damage yourself.’ – Claudia Winkleman
‘We always hear Compton and Long Beach, but Watts is always overlooked.’ – Jay Rock
‘I like to work out in the gym, but when I’m in Miami, it’s all about the beach for exercise.’ – Ser’Darius Blain
‘Hua Hin is Thailand’s royal beach resort and home to the king’s summer palace. The local food is fantastic, the weather is beautiful, everything’s cheap and the Thai people are so friendly and warm.’ – Prue Leith
‘I’m 26 years old, I’m not some 43-year-old who’s just gonna watch TV all day. Of course I want to go out there, hang out with teammates, hang out with people I love, go to the beach, go hang out!’ – Enes Kanter
‘I love to go to Aksa Beach at midnight.’ – Javed Ali
‘I can never fully switch off given my work, but laying on the beach replying to a few emails on my mobile is much better than being stuck in the office.’ – Karren Brady
‘I’m a total beach bum.’ – Amyra Dastur
‘I grew up on the Gold Coast of Australia, on the beach, basically.’ – Cody Simpson
‘I grew up on the beach and I grew up surfing and I grew up swimming in this very genuine beach town back in Australia, and it’s just something I really want to reflect in my lifestyle and in the way I am, the way I represent myself, the way I dress and the music that I make.’ – Cody Simpson
‘The first time I got recognized in the Sates, it was by Mike Tyson. He sang ‘Cruel Summer’ at us as we were walking out of the hotel to go to the beach.’ – Keren Woodward
‘Thank god magazines like ‘Heat’ weren’t around in our day. The thought of someone catching you unawares on a beach and publishing photos of your cellulite… it’s so hurtful, causes so many problems.’ – Keren Woodward
‘In a film, I can show you the beach, the sunset, the roads, while in a play you have to imagine all that.’ – Paresh Rawal
‘What happens is that every August photographers camp out in Hyannis Port. So anytime I go down to the beach, or go to the pier or whatever, there’s no avoiding them.’ – John F. Kennedy Jr.
‘I certainly grew up in coastal New Hampshire, but I prefer to play in the woods than go to Hampton Beach or whatever.’ – Robert Eggers
‘If you don’t like The Ramones, you don’t like rock ‘n’roll. They’re like The Beach Boys without the sea.’ – John Cooper Clarke
‘Living in L.A., it’s such a big huge place and there’s so much of it. It’s so much fun to be in Chinatown, or Downtown L.A. I was in Lynnwood, I was in Huntington Beach. I was in Venice. It’s an incredible place.’ – Tim Commerford
‘From the beginning, I knew I wanted a beach wedding so I’m thankful looking back that this is how everything turned out.’ – Maria Taylor
‘We are the hope to this world because this nation was dedicated with little white crosses that were marked along the beaches down by Virginia Beach and Plymouth that were marked and said we dedicate this land to take the Gospel to the nations and once the Gospel is taken to the nations we usher in the return of the Lord.’ – Paula White
‘My roots are in everything from doo-wop and blues to the Four Freshman and the Beach Boys and jazz and electronica. But it was put together in a deceptively simple package.’ – Steve Miller
‘Where I am from in Sweden was on the beach, so I love the sound of the water hitting the dock.’ – Freddie Ljungberg
‘People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is going on between their ears, I wonder?’ – Max Boot
‘Venice Beach is incredibly quiet at night: no streetlights, no traffic, hummingbirds in the garden, palm trees everywhere.’ – KT Tunstall
‘On my real vacations, I meet up with friends and we go for walks on the beach. We stroll through old cities, swim in the sea, and take afternoon naps. We shop, lunch, and, yeah, drink.’ – Carole Radziwill
‘I spent time in refugee camps in Southeast Asia, and in the projects of Chicago. I’ve been to State dinners with Presidents. I met the Queen of England on a beach in Anguilla. No one is any more valuable or important than you are. No one is more important than your family and your friends.’ – Carole Radziwill
‘I’m a bronzer girl, for sure. I love to always look golden or like I just stepped off the beach.’ – Eva Marie
‘On the face of it there is a pristine white sandy beach, but within an hour, around 100 of us can collect up to 250-300 kilos of rubbish. It’s mostly bits of plastic, fishing line, nylon, bottle caps. We’ve found everything.’ – Ben Fogle
‘A beach date would be awesome, with like a little picnic basket, some fruit and bread – just something really, really relaxed and laid-back. I like just relaxing all day, maybe playing in the water a little bit. It’s just totally a day to chill.’ – Beth Phoenix
‘A play called ‘Bichchu’ with Om Puri in the main role was going to be staged and I was working backstage. An actor failed to turn up for rehearsals and the director asked me to do that role instead. I agreed and would go to the beach to rehearse my dialogues as I had no place to stay those days.’ – Satish Kaushik
‘No 13-year-old or over should ever be seen in trousers that finish above the ankle. It doesn’t matter how good your legs are, or if you’re on a beach in Bermuda where they invented the things.’ – A. A. Gill
‘The great thing about the beach they use in ‘Home & Away’ is that they can’t kick you off it, so there were always tons of Irish people on it all the time.’ – Vogue Williams
‘I love DJing and being asked to DJ at the Ocean Beach club was something I couldn’t refuse; once I got on the decks and saw everyone dancing I felt in my element!’ – Vogue Williams
‘The buzzer timing is so important and when you get into a rhythm like that – to go back to baseball you’ll hear hitters on a hot streak say that the ball looks like a beach ball -and when you have the timing on the buzzer and you’re just getting in whenever you want, that seems to sort of snowball.’ – Brad Rutter
‘I used to go to surf camp in the summers, and I remember going to the beach and thinking my style was so different from all of the other kids.’ – Camille Rowe
‘I think from an East Coast point of view, you’d be like, ‘Oh, a California record’s a sunny record.’ It’s like you spend three hours in the studio because the rest of the time you must be at the beach.’ – Adam Granduciel
‘I trained my whole life for the Olympics. I didn’t have a childhood, I really couldn’t go to the beach with my friends. Couldn’t go to parties. Just training, training, training.’ – Claressa Shields
‘I was a lifeguard for three years, when I was around 16-years-old. So for my first job, that was awesome, working on the beach.’ – Maryse Mizanin
‘The beach and I are two things that get along really well.’ – Maryse Mizanin
‘My stepfather, Steve Mallonee, is a retired Miami Beach firefighter, loved and adored by many. After numerous years of heroic work, saving lives through fire and heavy smoke, he has developed a very fatal lunge disease called Pulmonary Fibrosis.’ – Chad Gilbert
‘Every time I finish in the top 10, I go to the mall. We have a really sick mall here in Palm Beach, Fla., with a lot of high-end stores. I’ll go in there and impulse buy for a couple of hours.’ – Justin Thomas
‘My favourite hotel is the Hilton Hawaiian Village beach resort in Honolulu.’ – Vera Lynn
‘Seeing photographs of my dad, Bert, on the beach with a knotted handkerchief on his head to avoid getting sunburn still brings a smile to my face.’ – Vera Lynn
‘At the risk of sounding corny, the beach and the ocean are such a constant part of Los Angeles life, so that definitely seeps into our music.’ – Sasha Spielberg
‘When I’m in South Africa, I make it a point to take my dogs out to the beach.’ – Dale Steyn
‘The biggest piece is my family… From watching films like The Godfather on our dining room wall, to having a great relationship with my sibling. Or going on weekend trips with our cousins to the beach and eating all day… it’s been a crazy childhood; a ‘bohemian one’.’ – Zoya Akhtar
‘Few changes are allowed in Palm Beach, making it an anachronistic little village where everything looks almost the same as it did years and years ago.’ – Tinsley Mortimer
‘Of particular note, Palm Beach is one of the safest places in the world to live or visit. Proof of this is that over thirty billionaires live in the 10.4 square mile area.’ – Tinsley Mortimer
‘I was not trying to be snarky or snobby by saying that West Palm Beach is no Palm Beach.’ – Tinsley Mortimer
‘In 2013, after living in New York for 18 years, I decided to leave Manhattan for a fresh start in Palm Beach.’ – Tinsley Mortimer
‘If you hear a song and all you want to do is open the window and drive to the beach it’s a good song for the summer.’ – Dennis Lloyd
‘The Beach Boys set the bar for pop sunshine more than 40 years ago, and the genre hasn’t changed that much since. Surfer Blood’s ‘Floating Vibes’ rounds the usual bases with an upbeat attitude, and the string swells closing the track are a must, but the band manages to infuse all those old sounds with fresh energy.’ – Anthony Fantano
‘With its breezy guitars and sweet backing vocals, ‘Norway’ blows away any semblance of Beach House’s previously bleak approach to pop.’ – Anthony Fantano
‘I really spent most of my childhood in my bedroom watching Barbra Streisand movies and musicals and making videos. That was kind of where it all started for me. I would go to the beach occasionally.’ – Randy Rainbow
‘We must incorporate climate modelling in future plans and investments. Whether it is policies on crop procurement, skilling and job creation, urbanisation or even beach tourism, climate adaptation pathways will have to be imagined.’ – Rohini Nilekani
‘I’m living by the beach so it’s nice to wake up in the morning and see the beach.’ – Rhian Brewster
‘As a writer, I’ve always been the sum total of my influences, and those are all over the spectrum: Rachmaninov, the Who, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Lesley Gore, Burt Bacharach and Leonard Bernstein, the Rolling Stones and the Small Faces.’ – Eric Carmen
‘I wanted to have a band that could rock as hard as the Who and sing like the Beatles and the Beach Boys; a band that could play concise, three-and-a-half minute songs with power and elegance.’ – Eric Carmen
‘Well, when the Raspberries ended in early 1975 suddenly I didn’t have to write to anybody’s strengths or weaknesses. I was completely wide open and I thought wow, I can write anything I want now. I can use session musicians. I can find another band that sings like the Beach Boys, I can do all kinds of things.’ – Eric Carmen
‘I used to work on Blackpool Pleasure Beach when I started wrestling.’ – William Regal
‘I get a call from my sister. They go, ‘We met the funniest, funniest doctor in Newport Beach.’ And they introduced me to Dr. Terry Dubrow.’ – Paul Nassif
‘I wish I don’t tan. I dread the thought of shooting on the beach.’ – Priyamani
‘I ran to get my cassette recorder and sang ‘We Got the Beat’ into the recorder to document it. I knew I had written something special. It took two minutes. I didn’t labor on the lyrics. It’s a simple song, which goes back to the ’60s, when I had my ears glued to the radio for the Stones, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys.’ – Charlotte Caffey
‘I live in Wellington now but I love going back to the farm where all you can hear are the cows or the sea crashing in about a kilometre away. Our uncle’s farm is on the beach and we are one up from that towards the mountain.’ – Beauden Barrett
‘Australia’s got some of the best girls in the world. They are very fit, very athletic and always by the beach.’ – Redfoo
‘I love the island of Majorca. I love the beach at Cala Ratjada, which is on the far side of the island where not many Britons go.’ – John Torode
‘I’m a culture person when I’m working, so my downtime is beach time: sand, surf and a barbecue.’ – John Torode
‘Beaches are really important to me, and I love Sennen Cove and Perranporth Beach.’ – John Torode
‘The great thing about the Island is you’ve got room. You can go for a bike ride. We’re 20 minutes to a beach, and you can get on the beach and go for a long walk.’ – Barry Trotz
‘I just can’t resist lying on a beach, eating great food and shopping.’ – Shibani Dandekar
‘It’s interesting – the things you remember about Chariots of Fire is the slow running on the beach and the Vangelis music.’ – Niki Caro
‘I have been playing beach volleyball since I was 10. I’m very passionate about this game and every summer I have been practising with my friend.’ – Ivan Perisic
‘I’d like to thank everyone who has given me the opportunity to play with the best beach volleyball players in the world.’ – Ivan Perisic
‘I like when we do houses in the beach cities, because we can go a little crazier with budget. It’s fun to do more original things like wallpapers and high-end design.’ – Christina Anstead
‘If I choose a holiday destination, it would be a beach.’ – Akhil Akkineni
‘I often take off with my friends for a beach break in Maldives.’ – Ananya Birla
‘I feel like I lived my life in one of three places: at Indian Hill Park, at a Manasquan school or at the beach.’ – Doris Burke
‘I go to the beach with some family. I like to go there because I’m alone and I can think.’ – Pablo Mari
‘I don’t get to go to the beach often, so when I’m in Miami I usually spent the majority of my time by the ocean.’ – Brandi Cyrus
‘If athletics wasn’t an option, I’d probably work at like a surf shop in Hawaii on the beach, just dishing out surf boards.’ – Danny Amendola
‘I just want an intimate beach wedding.’ – Kaitlyn Bristowe
‘I used to go to the beach everyday in Rio!’ – Marcelo
‘Way back as a child playing football on the beach, you dream of being a player representing your national team on the big stage – and now I get to be the captain. It’s something money can’t buy.’ – Marcelo
‘There are four seasons in Iran, so you can go winter skiing, you can go in summer to the beach… it’s not a real tourism place, but it’s a nice country if you have family and friends to visit there.’ – Gegard Mousasi
‘Medalla is Puerto Rico’s national treasure, as I call it. It’s a Puerto Rican national beer – a great light beer for a beach day.’ – Pedro Capo
‘I could write songs on the beach, but the interior darkness, we have it all. We have it.’ – Tarja Turunen
‘One thing I hate is going to a beach – they all look the same to me!’ – Antara Mali
‘You sort of have that meditation, that happy place I go to in my brain. The happy place may be an island or something where I’m on the beach. Something like that where I can sort of at least try to escape and try to just release my mind into that place that I want to be in, into my relaxing place.’ – John Collins
‘I got married on a beach in Italy. It was very romantic getting married in Italian. But I’ve no idea what we agreed to.’ – Denis Lawson
‘We have our own ocean, we’ve got a great bike trail – I love riding all the way to the turnaround at Hollywood Beach.’ – Joe Maddon
‘One of the nicest things to do in Kingston on a Sunday is eat johnnycake, Festival and fish at Hellshire Beach.’ – Rita Marley
‘Going from Miami to L.A., it’s such a different scene. In L.A., it’s always dressing to impress. Miami is not, unless you go to South Beach.’ – Sabrina Claudio
‘Well, I came from a small little town on the beach – Grayland, a town of about 1,000 people. I was the quarterback and a basketball player at Ocosta High School. It was a great community to grow up in.’ – Colin Cowherd
‘It feels like everyday when you’re outside in Los Angeles, you’re supposed to go the beach or something.’ – Kevon Looney
‘Once you find that perfect suit that fits just right, it will give you an extra boost of confidence that will make your pool or beach day even better.’ – Denise Bidot
‘I’m always the kid who is going to be finding out if there is a cemetery or an abandoned amusement park that I can go visit as opposed to the beach, so it wasn’t too much of a stretch to get me to the world of Ninth House.” – Leigh Bardugo
‘So, I went to see No Doubt play on March 14, 1987 at the show at Fender’s Ballroom in Long Beach, California. A week later I tried out and I joined the band and that was obviously a completely incredible thing for me and a life changing moment.’ – Tony Kanal
‘The South Coast is not teeming with fish any more; there are no fleets of trawlers left. Small local boats land their fish daily and often sell it at the back of the beach, a scenario repeated all the way from West Bay to Whitstable.’ – Rick Stein
‘In Australia you’re not allowed to go down to the beach and eat anything from the rocks. You just can’t do it – help yourself to mussels and things like that because there’s hardly any left and the government has now legislated against it.’ – Rick Stein
‘The day you feel like you don’t have anything to prove, it’s better you go to the beach and stay there and take in the sunshine.’ – Gianfranco Zola
‘Yeah, I was only in New York from the age of six months until five years old. But my very first memories are all of New York. I remember my first rainbow on a beach in New York. I remember jumping on a bed in New York.’ – Gaspar Noe
‘I have definitely become a beach girl.’ – Andi Dorfman
‘If I’m on a beach I’m the one to find the ammonite, or in a field I’ll find the four-leaf clover.’ – Helen Baxendale
‘JLS got the biggest reception at T4 On The Beach – it was like whoa, OK!’ – Miquita Oliver
‘When I went traveling, I was sleeping on the beach. Sometimes I was starving. I used to dream of eating a meat pie from the chippy.’ – Bez
‘Well-fitting and nice-looking swimwear is of utmost importance as it is the only item one wears on the beach.’ – Sherlyn Chopra
‘My son was made on North Beach, and my daughter was named after Nazare.’ – Garrett McNamara
‘I used to train on the beach when I went home.’ – P. T. Usha
‘I brought hurdles, all ten of them, to the beach and had my hurdling sessions very close to the water. Those days, I trained on the beach for nearly three months every season with coach Nambiar. I used to run into the water, almost chasing the receding waves, and that was how I built up strength.’ – P. T. Usha
‘I’ve been trolled myself for adding on pounds and would dread the negative comments if I posted beach pictures.’ – Susanna Reid
‘My husband is a journalist as well, and while we love beaches, we can’t sit for that long. If we go to a beach destination, there needs to be something else we can do there as well. I need to be around interesting and different people and cultures.’ – Mariana van Zeller
‘I was a street kid, but that meant hopping a ride on the back of the MTA down to Revere Beach – that’s the beach that’s made out of concrete – or sneaking into the Boston Garden to watch the Celtics or the Bruins.’ – Howie Long
‘I mean, take ‘Chariots Of Fire.’ That opening scene, the long shot of the runners along the beach, and then you hear that music… I think that was one of the first times synthesizers were really used in movie music. I just flipped! I didn’t even care what the story was going to be. Give me a nice marriage of sound and music.’ – John Densmore
‘I’ve designed multi-purpose outfits that women can wear at resorts, cocktail evenings or as cover-ups on beach wear.’ – Nandita Mahtani
‘My understanding of romance novels was that it was on the beach with a glass of rose.’ – Jonathan Bailey
‘One of the best-kept secrets in Phuket is Banana beach.’ – Goldie
‘Anybody is a beach body is what I love to say.’ – Leigh-Anne Pinnock
‘We all worry about being beach body ready. It’s one of those really annoying things worrying about having the perfect bod. But really what is the perfect body?’ – Leigh-Anne Pinnock
‘My ideal holiday would be to spend the first week doing lots of fun stuff, then to spend the second week relaxing on a beach.’ – Charley Boorman
‘I was just cruising around the streets of South Beach and got scouted. Two ladies stopped my parents and said, ‘This kid needs to try the sport of inline speed skating,’ so I did and I remember falling in love with it and the thrill of racing.’ – Eddy Alvarez
‘I lived in Swansea Marina and was a minute’s walk from the beach. I used to love going to Mumbles and visiting Gower with its fantastic beaches like Langland, Oxwich and Caswell.’ – Ellie Simmonds
‘I sit at the beach and I keep thinking there is something more I could be doing.’ – Karch Kiraly
‘I love beach volleyball.’ – Karch Kiraly
‘My buddies and I were just hooked on beach volleyball. We were obsessed with the game.’ – Karch Kiraly