Andrea Riseborough Quotes

Being by the ocean is the greatest thing.

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.

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

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

I've always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and being able to smell the ocean breeze.

Scotland is so gorgeous that every time I'm there, I start to dream of living there. I want to buy one of those whitewashed cottages with the thatch roofs and gaze out at the sea and read my books. I want to be away from the Internet and the news and lawn mowers at 7 A.M. on Sunday mornings.

I want to be able to live in a way that isn't too hectic. Calm. And I want those around me to be sublimely happy as well.

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 like being by the ocean.

You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

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 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.

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

The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling.

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

When you come to a place like Kauai, you don't go for a high tech world.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

Anything for a quiet life.

My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What's beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.

The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.

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.

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.