Charlaine Harris Quotes

I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.

We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.

I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

I'm all about shrimpburgers, reading, and going to the beach.

I think that Jersey Shore is awesome. I've gone to Cape May every summer of my life.

I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.

I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!

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

I am such a vacation girl. I have little places that I go to frequently! If I am not too busy on a weekend, I try to go someplace like Mexico or Manzanillo or something like that.

To be honest, I just want to go somewhere where I can wear a white Speedo.

I rented a house in Favignana, off the coast of Sicily, in the mid or late '90s. There was a revolving door of visiting friends and family - we played games, painted our faces, went swimming naked, cooked big meals, rode around on motorini, and had great cappuccinos.

I just like the beaches in the summer, man.

I don't really go to the beach.

Chasing kids on the beach and sleeping is the closest I come to exercising while in Hawaii.

I tried to swim as much as possible. Being in Southern California in the summer time, it's so nice because you have the warm beaches, so I try to swim every day.

I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses ... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.

Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

I've been to three different islands in the Maldives, and the Caribbean was relaxing, although my holidays are always peppered with some sport, sightseeing, or diving.

I just love to be out on the lake, wakeboard, surfing, just playing, man.

I'm not good at vacationing. I've repeatedly failed at palapas and mai-tais.

What's the big deal if I dress casually and dance in my backyard.

As a kid, I dreamed of playing in a warm land with a swimming pool.

I love to go to the beach or stay at the pool with my girls - enjoy the sun and the water as much as I can, take rides with the bicycles, and spend time with my family.

I spent 10 days on the beach and slept pretty much all day, every day. It was the perfect place to have a rest.

Summer = yoga, snowcones, swimming & no makeup