95 Quotes About Surfing

  • Author Mark Smith
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    I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's like wrestling with an old friend, tumbling underneath then coming up for air.

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  • Author Martijn Benders
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    Who 'waits for inspiration' has probably never explored the brain. Its much larger than the entire internet. Writing, however, is partly stalking the big wave, and ride it when it comes. However, the thousands and thousands of blokes sitting at the shoreline trying to create waves by splashing their hands in the surf - it might be what they teach at writer workshops, but the sight is absolutely ghastly.

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  • Author Hobart Alter
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    In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal. I always got really into whatever it was I was doing.

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  • Author Michelangelo Antonioni
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    You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

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