Surf Quotations

There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true that the best surf around here tends to happen in winter, so you need a good wetsuit, and the time window of good waves is often pretty short, so you have to stay on top of the forecasts.

Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.

For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf.

People laughed at me for setting up a surf shop.

Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.

I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have been extremely important for our success. GoPro is all about celebrating an active lifestyle and sharing that with other people. It's authentic. It's not a brand that we went out and bought a bunch of ads for to create.

I surf more now for other people than myself. I feel a lot of support from people wanting me to do well, and I feed off that. I can send a positive message to people from what I do.

I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf.

I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.

Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very - it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.

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

An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.

I don't have a lot of time to surf the net and see what everyone's wearing.

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.

I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!

I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.

I'm just a glutton for spas and messages. And I love to surf and hike.

I realized that a surf trip on a jet can be like a road trip. If you see a road you want to turn down, you can just go there.

I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

When we were 14, it was Cost of Living. Then later, it was Because Because Because. That band was real ambitious and networking, looking for a deal. And that sucked, so we broke up. Nada Surf was formed for fun.

We bought all the inventory, and we're going to have an extensive surfboard presence, and we'll increase the apparel. It's going to be a real surf shop.

We're seeing some pretty strong surf today. We're flying a red flag -- high surf advisory. We don't recommend people being in this water at all. The current is running to the north pretty strong. It will carry anybody down shore.

We're asking that the system allow people to surf and to post and read things anonymously. Because the system requires people to sign on, it creates the opportunity for persistent tracking.

We have so many (hate) groups throughout the country, ... One only needs to surf the Internet to learn about most of them.

When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or fly my plane. And, when I feel tension about the grind of work, it's not getting the money to make films versus making films that constitutes the grind, it's all this stuff.

I get to surf every day.

I love having the opportunity to surf.

When the surf is really good, it's hard for me to concentrate on work. So I really have to watch when and where I surf - I won't get anything done if I get the fever. Then it's like I come into work and I'm wet and waterlogged and ready for lunch.

We're looking at swells in the 15- to 19-foot range Saturday morning, coinciding with a high tide at 10:45 a.m. of seven feet. Stay away from the water. Surf that high may be pretty to look at, but rather difficult to predict. Breakers can unexpectedly wash over the beach and rocks. They create rip currents and beach erosion. It's not advisable to get terribly close.

Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of their relationship with their product and the ocean.

My dad taught me how to surf and swim. When I was in the water, I felt nothing could go wrong. It was like a fantasy.

no other individual has had more command over surf media in the U.S. than Larry Moore.

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

Buffett came and sat in with us the other night in Chicago. That was fun. He and I played 'A Pirate Looks at Forty,' one of his songs. We actually know each other pretty well now. We're definitely from the same breed -- guys who like to go on boats and surf and have a good time, so I don't mind being compared to him at all.

Be an explorer...read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play...do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world.

I'm a qualified lifeguard and have being teaching people how to surf for five years now. Victor used to wash my car at Addington Beach until I thought about offering him this opportunity.

For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer.

His surf career is kinda over, so he's at a crossroads when a friend comes to him and says here's an opportunity to work with these girls. ... He has to make sure they train, don't stay out late, and show up to events on time. I'm grooming them for a pro career.

I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.

Other than underwear, a cell phone is the only thing that most people have with them on a 24-hour basis, no matter where they are. And it's used not just for talk, but to surf the Web.

People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.

Surf City, to me, is a state of mind, ... and the fact we have to go to the Legislature and legislative acts to either do it or not do it ? it?s somewhat disappointing. But I?m glad in one aspect that it?s like, ?Let?s just drop this thing.?

Surf City has nothing to do with Santa Cruz,

Surf and skateboarding - all these looks are influencing boys fashion.

Stacy was this really controlled, fluid skater. And that really carried into his personality. I had been snowboarding my whole life. I went to surf camp in Southern California every year until a few years ago, so I had been surfing for a long time as well. I had more of the surfer style of skating which was cool 'cause it's kind of what I needed to do in the role.

I surf out of Harmony on a big wave. It's all Tabitha's fault.

I surfed competitively from age 13 to 18. Every day, before and after school. I wanted to surf for the rest of my life. It's what all my friends did - I even had it as a subject in school for a number of years.

Justin is the girl's guru and surf instructor; an ex-pro who's lost his way in life,

The area needed a core surf shop. We have two of the best surfers in the world here, and we will be a part of the community and involved in community.

That suggests that they're going to get strong winds (in Florida) and they're really going to get some strong surf out of this.

While 'The Endless Summer' poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the image grew out of my relationship with Rick Griffin and our deep relationship to surf images.

Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.

We'd surf together, then go straight to the coffee shop and have our meetings. It's amazing how much we'd get done.

We hate surf schools. Basically, surf schools bring so many people to the lineup that it becomes hazardous.

We're watching these winter storms very carefully as well as the storm surge and surf conditions that are off our coast, because all of that combine to create some real serious situations for us.

You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.

I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.

Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.

If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

The experience of seeing a surf movie in the 1970s, as a teenager, and the energy in those theatres, was amazing. It was the only way to see people surfing. These guys would go out and make these surf movies and bring them to four-wall theatres. It was an incredible experience that I'll never forget.

What we're trying to do is create futuristic surf communities.

This proves Indians do nothing else but surf the Web.

I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.

Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf

We're trying to warn surfers that we have high surf and strong rip currents and they should use extreme caution.

When I was younger, I had no problem renting a car and driving down every dirt road in Baja or Costa Rica looking for great waves to avoid crowds, ... It was fun, but as I've gotten older, I'm more inclined to charter a surf camp trip. Frankly, I'm looking for a little more comfort and a lot less hassle.

We had a couple of good rescues. We had a guy from Las Vegas maybe he learned to surf in a wave pool; I don't know.

We assumed the sewage would lessen the salinity, but at surf sites, that wasn't the case.

The photos were taken at the three islands, North Island, South Island, and Stewart Island. There are a few good shots of a famous surf spot called Raglan - it's the longest surf left in the world and featured in the classic surf movie 'Endless Summer.' I also have a few of Clint's fishing boat, F/V Rachel, leaving the Port of New Zealand.

To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

What I've started doing more and more is eat some cereal with skim milk before I go to the big event, and I try to cut back on the surf and turf.

Don't put yourself at risk. Water, either surf conditions or swift water creeks, and streams are unbelievably powerful. And we've lost people's lives in this county due to it.

There's really been very intense growth in the surf charter industry, ... You wouldn't believe how many and how varied the locations are that we offer packages to Fiji, Samoa, Maldives, Indonesia, and all over Central and South America. Even the Galapagos Islands.

I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway.

These days you'll find a surf scene just about anyplace there are waves. Even on beaches once considered off the beaten path, you'll often find surf shops offering lessons and board rentals.

The surf spots are still not deemed safe.

I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.

Speaking from the perspective of the Santa Maria and Lompoc valleys and Surf Beach

One day during filming, George Clooney was wearing his surf shirt and board shorts, and my six-year-old daughter was in the background as an extra, playing in the sand - playing herself. She and Clooney suddenly looked equally Hawaiian, equally related to the place I call home.

As a veteran surf camp instructor, I've had my share of hospital runs, sharks, mishaps, and close calls. I thought my stories were intense, until other surfers began sending me theirs.

Zone Labs has always been known as the leader in complete Internet security solutions. Yet as hackers get more savvy and the PC becomes a commodity worth monetary value on the black market, consumers must also use care as they surf the 'Net. Armed with the right information, people can defend the integrity of the Internet and defeat those who would exploit it for criminal purposes.

They're welcome to e-mail or surf the Web during lunch or while taking a break.

A major component of the surf board is no longer available. There is one other guy in southern California making these but nowhere near that volume level. There is a large manufacturer in Australia but they'll never be able to handle the volume in the United States.

There is that desire to go surf the waves by yourself, just you and nature and I will never do it again, never.

For a city or person to claim a right of ?exclusivity? smacks of ?elitism? to me. I refuse to believe a surf icon of the past or any city official for that matter, can truly define a magical culture.

It's gotten to the point now where I surf the fan sites everyday and download cool things the fans have created, which is really ironic in a way!

The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school's fishing team.

Everyone in the world is out there right now. They'll surf until the last minute. Until it's uncontrollable.

It's a magical start. It kind of gives me a nice little cushion there. If I just surf loose and get another result or two, then everything's lined up real good for the start of the year.

It's definitely one of the hazards with a powerful storm such as this. It's advised to not go near the surf ... Water is a powerful thing.

They wait until the train is either travelling slowly enough, or stop and climb onto the roof and ride it like a surf board.

The Internet browser and other added functionality of the firmware 2.0 upgrade will further enhance the user experience beyond the unprecedented portable to entertainment already provided by PSP, ... By allowing consumers to wirelessly surf the Web, personalize their PSP and access and share new audio, video and image formats, PSP continues to evolve the entertainment experience out of the home and reaffirm its position as the must-have product of the year.

I need to surf - surf and yoga. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go down to San Diego to surf for the weekend, and I always come back perfect.

The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.

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