Matthew Underwood Quotes

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

I like being by the ocean.

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

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

Being by the ocean is the greatest thing.

I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.

I'm still obsessed with the beach whenever I'm home; when I'm on the beach, it feels like home to me.

At home, we live on the beach, and it's like every day is a date.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach.

I grew up on the beach. It's just a way of life. You don't seek out that lifestyle; it's just day-to-day.

I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

I couldn't live in L.A. and not be close to the beach, you know, that's like the whole thing. I don't understand people who don't live by the beach. Why would you not?

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.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

I like being in warm weather. I find that relaxes me. I like being near water. I like sitting on a beach and sort of hearing the water, watching waves break, looking at the shimmering. I find that really relaxing.

My happy place is 40 feet out in the Gulf of Mexico, sitting on a sandbar in 80-degree water, watching clouds crawl by. Absolute heaven.

My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.

Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.

I love how it feels to unwind by the ocean.

I spend a lot of time near water.

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH.