#surfing

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#back #computer #few #get #go

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave. ↗

— Paul Walker

#awesome #been #disappears #experience #i

I thought how, with the peeling wave as an ideal of perfection, the surfer's object of passion becomes the very essence of ephemerality-not a thing to be owned or a goal to be attained but rather a fleeting state to inhabit. So much more of my time, after all, passed in the dreaming and searching than in the actual riding of waves; so much more time spent driving the coast and floating between sets. Of a whole year of devotion, probably no more than a day was spent truly on my feet and surfing, so I couldn't view such a moment as this without an ardent, frustrated desire, a near-religious craving for wholeness. Unlike so many other passions: while on might, I suppose, wish for a bloom to remain in blossom, for a ripening grape to hang always on the vine-yearnings John Keats made his own, for fleeting beauty and youth, the understandably hopeless hope that we might freeze our world's better moments-the wave's plenitude is rather in the peeling of the petal, the very motion of the falling fruit." Page 99 ↗

— Daniel Duane

#waves #beauty

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#bottom #concept #crashes #gonna #i

I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#ago #any #different #different perspective #expert

I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#doing #extra #give #give me #i

Surfing isn't really in my blood. It's hard to catch a big wave in Billingham. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#blood #catch #hard #really #surfing

I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#alive #anything #being #distracts #doing

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#anymore #gardening #hat #hiking #i

Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again. ↗

— Marc Newson

#back #doing #get #i #into