The coast is clear. Not a beached whale in sight.

“Once, in the South Atlantic, I saw a whaler in the process of killing a female accompanied by one of her offspring. The harpooner,…

— Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand,…

— Joseph Conrad

“I hate when people say primitive people didn’t even have running water. What do they call rivers?”

— Jarod Kintz

“I meander and wander, like a lazy river. Gosh, why are some rivers so damn lazy? What, are they teenagers?”

— Jarod Kintz

I sleep 75 percent of all plane trips I take. I love red-eyes from West to East. I take Ambien to make sure I…

— Trent Dilfer

Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.

— Yasunari Kawabata

We loved getting married on the east coast of Mexico.

— Alex Cooper

I feel like too many people on the West Coast, they're too needy. They feel they need Snoop or Game. I never did any…

— Tyga

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues…

— Robert Plant

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

— Marian McPartland

You don't have to come from Trinidad to really love Harry Belafonte, you don't have to come from the West Coast to appreciate the…

— Seth Avett

The United States is filled with power places. The majority of them, however, are to be found either along the West Coast and in…

— Frederick Lenz

When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody…

— Mindy Kaling

I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of…

— Brian Skerry

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

— Julie Kavner