Austin Stowell Quotes

I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To get to the mainland, we had to go by boat, so it was just a way of life.

I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day.

This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.

The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of guys had just caught all this yellow fin tuna; they literally brought this huge wooden table down to the sand, pulled the tuna from the boat, dropped it on top of the table, pulled the skin off and sliced the tuna up.

I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.

Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.

I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.

Everything in L.A. is - it's just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you got the ocean right there and the mountains behind you; there's an idealised easiness to the way you live and the whole environment.

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.

I'm such an L.A. boy, I love hanging out by the beach and throwing some steaks on the grill.

I like the beach and would also love to learn golf because I think it is rather elegant for an older lady.

I have one of the most beautiful places in the world in Orange County. That's a great place to live.

I'm surrounded by the beach, so I love to fish and to dive and to swim. I walk a lot, and I bike around. I hang out at the beach, really, and muck around.

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.

I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.

In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you.

I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters.

I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.

There's something really simple and idyllic about living in a house very close to the water.

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

You worked your paper route, mowed the lawn, then played golf all day.

People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.