The Beach Bum Quotes

For a beach bum you're not very chill," said Benny.
Bob frowned. "This beach bum is a retired death god who is getting a little agitated," he said. ~ Adam Christopher

I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown. ~ Cherie Lunghi

How terribly dear!" she said. "How ineffably buddy-buddy! I shouldn't have gone running to him with my little heartache, Mr. McGee. It was selfish of me. It upset him, and it didn't do me any particular good. How can he check up on anything anyway? Why don't you just invent some soothing little story for him and go down and tell it to him and then go back to your beach-bum career, whatever it is? ~ John D. MacDonald

I'm kind of a beach bum from Florida, and I have a very different style. I like tight-fitting, Euro-fitting clothes, colored pants. ~ Chandler Parsons

Young Noah: [humming] Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
Young Allie: [laughing] You're a terrible singer.
Young Noah: I know.
Young Allie: [laying her head on his shoulder] But I like this song.
[they continue dancing in the street to I'll Be Seeing You] ~ Nicholas Sparks

He wondered if he'd be better off staying at the bum shelter with his false bum and forgetting about his real bum. But he couldn't. His bum was trying to take over the world. ~ Griffiths, Andy

and the duck walked up to the lemonaide stand and said, "hey bum bum bum got any grapes? ~ Bryant Oden

Wild beach is my primordial address. ~ Talismanist Giebra

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself! ~ Bum Phillips

Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye. ~ Bum Phillips

I don't want to look like a bum. ~ Bobby Fischer

When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him. ~ Bum Phillips

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. ~ Bum Phillips

On the beach, you can live in bliss. ~ Dennis Wilson

Stenchgator, the Great Unwiped Bum... was listed in the Bumper Book of Bums as the stinkiest bum in the world. Most bums only registered one or two points on the Rectum scale, but Stenchgator came in at a nose-bruising 9.8 points. ~ Griffiths, Andy

I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers ... What for? Houston isn't on our schedule. ~ Bum Phillips

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home. ~ Bum Phillips

He may not be in a class all by himself, but it don't take long to call the roll. ~ Bum Phillips

A bum slumped in a corner seat called out, Give the girl a dance already, ya bum! ~ Rachel Cohn

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team. ~ Bum Phillips

This is a great informative site providing different types of the beach umbrellas. Have fun in sun by picking the best beach umbrella. This comes with various attractive designs and features to protect you from UV rays. ~ Kevin Paul

I do loads of squats with weights. It's great for your bum and legs. ~ Fleur East

I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me. ~ Bum Phillips

And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag. ~ Scott Westerfeld

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. ~ William Stafford

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum. ~ Morgan Fairchild

I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice. ~ Denis Leary

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else. ~ Bum Phillips

There are only two ways to get in and out of an MG Midget sports car – the elegant way or my
way. The elegant way is how you see the film stars do it on TV when they arrive at the Oscars. To get
in, put your bum inside first and then swivel legs round. Similarly, to exit, swivel legs out, bum last.
My way is to get everything but bum in first, leave bum out in the cold for a bit while struggling with
other appendages, and then bum can come in. To get out, I simply fall on to the pavement. ~ Sarah Mason

Modern society calls the beggar bum and panhandler and gives him the bum's rush. But the Greeks used to say that people in need are the ambassadors of the gods ~ Peter Maurin

No matter what you do, do your best at it. If your going to be a bum, be the best bum there is. ~ Robert Mitchum

I model jeans. You need a bum for those. ~ Georgia May Jagger

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum. ~ Joe E. Lewis

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming. ~ Rob Manuel

If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I'll know I died in good health. ~ Bum Phillips

The harder we played, the behinder we got. ~ Bum Phillips

My creative hands can't keep up with my creative mind, so I think I'll sit and rest on my creative behind ~ Benny Bellamacina

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof. ~ Bum Phillips

No throne in the world can substitute a beach chair. ~ Talismanist Giebra

I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again. ~ Bum Phillips

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum. ~ Anthony Quinn

I'm taking my talents to South Beach. ~ LeBron James

That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon) ~ Bum Phillips

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline. ~ Bum Phillips

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right. ~ Bum Phillips

I've never taken a woman on a beach," - Rowan Whitethorn ~ Sarah J. Maas

But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically. ~ Vanessa Mae

Life is a beach. Don't make spelling errors. ~ Talismanist Giebra

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials. ~ Bum Phillips

Living by the beach means feeling guilty about never going to the beach. ~ Dov Davidoff

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum. ~ Thelonious Monk

Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach. ~ Glenn Danzig

The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Read as much as you can to keep the mind as supple as a baby's bum. ~ Jeff Bjune

Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them. ~ Gilbert Gottfried

You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes. ~ Bum Phillips

I can see why some people become "beach bunnies": you don't have to think about things or even talk when you're on the beach. You just sit here and feel good about being alive. ~ Jennifer Allison

Keisha, my love," I said in my fey-est, gayest drawl, "your bum doesn't just look big, it is big. No, I take that back. It's enormous. Planets feel inferior beside it . Lesser bums are drawn into orbit around it. Last time it went dark, everyone said, Oh, is it an eclipse? And I told them, 'No, it's Keisha's bum blotting out the sun.' I could compose odes to the size of your bum."

Jude answering Keisha's question "Does my bum look big in this?"

Merrow, JL (2013-04-09). Slam! (Kindle Locations 35-38). ~ J.L. Merrow

The ground with more sweats dropped on it would yield more fruit. (Achievers Are Dreamers)

Let us farm when it is clear and let us study when it rains. (Park Chung-hee) ~ Kim Bum-il

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me. ~ Bum Phillips

A bum stood at the Lucky Market right in front of Artesia & Blossom. He was begging for money. He looked pretty pathetic, dressed in rancid, oily clothes. He smelled like cigarettes and urine. "Can you spare a dime?" he would ask. People would shake their heads or walk around him. He was getting nowhere. Two hours went by, no money, not a cent. "Please, a dime!" cried the bum. A middle-aged man walked by him, heard his plea and laid upon him a mint new dime. "Thank you, sir! Thank you!" shouted the bum. Dime in hand, the bum limped over to a phone booth and called in the airstrike. ~ Henry Rollins

I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach. ~ Bethany Cosentino

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches. ~ Bum Phillips

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half. ~ Bum Phillips

If you're going to come wanting to work really hard, you're never going to bum me out. ~ Dito Montiel

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. ~ Lenny Bruce

From the outside, Rick Rubin's house above Zuma Beach is a generic millionaire beach home. There's a rarely used tennis court and a circular drive. ~ Stephen Rodrick

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told. ~ Bum Phillips

There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love. ~ Dennis Wilson

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat. ~ Peter Mullan

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one. ~ Cameron Diaz

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.' ~ Billy Boyd

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ~ Anna Quindlen

Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true. ~ Roxane Gay

Whoever had said in the guidebooks that the bum bag was a sensible device against theft had lied; no single item of dressware ever invented cried out "mug me" more than a pouch of zip-up plastic suspended by your groin. ~ Kate Griffin

I was looking at pictures of cats laying out on the beach and I thought, "Cats hate water, so why would they like the beach?" But then I realized that cats like to just lay around and lounge and be lazy, and what better place to do that than on the beach? ~ Bethany Cosentino

I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives. ~ Marisa Miller

What better way to work out than by the beach with my pup, Gucci? We power walk a bit, take in the beautiful beach air and constantly stop for some water so that all 5 pounds of him doesn't over-heated! ~ Cassie Scerbo

It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime. ~ Susan Orlean

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor! ~ Paddy Chayefsky

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside. ~ Mark Ruffalo

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free! ~ Bryan Procter

I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko. ~ AnnaLynne McCord

The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave ... go figure. ~ Joe Teti

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. ~ John Carpenter

Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.' ~ Mireille Guiliano

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile. ~ Steven Tyler

My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes when you're competing against the sun for a person's attention. ~ Rosecrans Baldwin

Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus? Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe. He can take his'n and beat your'n, then he can take your'n and beat his'n. ~ Bum Phillips

Historically, the Germans had a habit of associating the names of objects with the sounds they made. After bell makers-turned-cannon-makers learned that by closing off the mouth of the cannon before lighting the fuse, the entire cannon could be made to explode, the device they invented became known as the 'bum' (for boom!). In keeping with this tradition, the first one-thousand-pound bomb was dubbed 'ein laussen bum' (meaning, "a loud boom"). After the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, they called the fission device 'ein grossen laussen bum' (or, "a big loud boom"). The next obvious step was the fusion, or H-bomb, which was pronounced 'ein grossen laussen bum all ist kaput! ~ Charles Pellegrino

At Mach 20, we can fly from New York to Long Beach in 11 minutes and 20 seconds. ~ Regina E. Dugan

Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don't stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don't, you'll die there. ~ Matt Hughes

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing. ~ Elizabeth Berkley

Our mind is like a beach: Sometimes sunny, sometimes wavy, sometimes crowded, sometimes empty and lonely; at times stormy, at nights, cold and windy; in the mornings, very clear; at twilight, foggy! Our mind is like a beach, changing from one moment to another! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

BAREFOOT BEACH

Take off your shoes-
You're on barefoot beach.
Relax in the sunshine-
Broken only by trees. ~ Giorge Leedy

When I go to the beach, even the tide won't come in. ~ Phyllis Diller

I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach. ~ Jason Statham

Whoever thought a naked beach was a good idea never sat in one. ~ Janet Evanovich

I once fell in love with a crab on the beach. It was called crab. ~ Dougie Poynter