Hawaii Quote by Ophelia London

“There is nothing at any of our beaches at all comparable with the tremendous surf we saw at San Jose. Huge waves, mountains high,…

— Helen Josephine Sanborn

It's weird, I grew up in California, and I've only surfed, like, once.

— Riley Keough

“Oftentimes they are seen swimming around the surf zones and can swim very close to the shoreline.”

— Lisa Evans

“Tell me once more about the eternal surf.”

— Rob Bignell

“Los Angeles wasn’t a sun-splashed utopia anymore—it was an alienated, smog-choked sprawl rife with racial and class tensions, recession, and stifling boredom.”

— Michael Azerrad

“Everything out there was disturbingly interlaced with everything else. Waves were the playing field. They were the goal. They were the object of your…

— William Finnegan

“Submerged Suburbia by Stewart Stafford Fell out of bed, dragging my soul, Looked out the old goldfish bowl, To see suburbia was underwater, And…

— Stewart Stafford

“Waikiki Beach. I was psyched at the prospect of learning to surf in the historic place where Hawaiian kings and queens first rode atop…

— Nick Vujicic

I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.

— Bill Skarsgard

Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not…

— John Van Hamersveld

“We had a lazy voyage, stopping at Fiji and other islands, and finally arrived at Honolulu. It was far more sophisticated than we had…

— Agatha Christie

“The shore is of pebbles, and huge tangles of seaweed float in the bay and look like the hair of the drowned.”

— Hannah Kent