Beach Quotes
960 quotes by 754 authors
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I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially…
— John Kennedy Toole
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me
— Isaac Newton
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People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who…
— Stephen Fry
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And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a…
— David Foster Wallace
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They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good enough, worthy enough.…
— William Faulkner
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I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening…
— Catherine Anderson
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We need to talk.†“I’m just – Look,†I said, as he took a step toward me. “I’m just going to give Cee Cee a…
— Meg Cabot
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Percy smiled at her - that sarcastic troublemaker smile that had annoyed her for years but eventually had become endearing. His sea-green eyes were as…
— Rick Riordan
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It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside…
— Tove Jansson
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My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead stars; we gaze…
— Andre Breton
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Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance…
— Philip Larkin
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Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the beach standing upright…
— Robert Cormier
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The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best…
— Dr. Seuss
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She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish you…
— Janet Frame
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In another place, in another time, she would have felt the majesty of the beauty around her, but as she stood on the beach, she…
— Nicholas Sparks
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so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts…
— Virginia Woolf
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The cycle hit the beach and spun out. Emma went into a rolling crouch as she flew free of it, keeping her elbows in, pushing…
— Cassandra Clare
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Oh, shut up. He is not saying that he's too good-looking to be friends with girls. But then again, yesterday at the beach, there were…
— Kiersten White
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The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad,…
— Sarah Dessen
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