Seaside Quotes

34 quotes by 31 authors

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never… — Julie Burchill
Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort. — Al McGuire
I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous… — Henri Poincare
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of… — Thomas Huxley
The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water. — Lyonel Feininger
I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside — Ken Dodd
When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some… — Jim Dale
Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of it. Every last… — Bill Bryson
Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations get… — Simon Jenkins
People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a… — Peter Forsyth
I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here [The Asphalt Jungle (1950)],… — Diana Dors
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the… — Marcus Aurelius
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the fear… — John Betjeman
How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance. — John Banville
Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said… — Terry Pratchett
but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl… — Vladimir Nabokov
Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed… — Stephen Colbert
My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A… — Maira Kalman
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day… — George Bernard Shaw
Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher… — Kate Atkinson

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