Kelly Slater quote: "My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell."

There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. ...
KELLY SLATER

Big waves are a whole different ball game. You're riding a wave with an immense amount of speed ...
KELLY SLATER

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thi...
KELLY SLATER

Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natur...
KELLY SLATER

I feel like an ambassador for surfing at this point. I'm happy to go and play that role and shar...
KELLY SLATER

When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.
KELLY SLATER

For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf.
KELLY SLATER

It's funny because depending on the day or where we are, my favorite surfer is either Andy or Bruce.
KELLY SLATER

To receive a 10-point ride is a blessing in itself, but to have it honored by giving to those who co...
KELLY SLATER

Now is the time to determine whether or not it will be a two-horse race for the title,
KELLY SLATER

I haven't surfed that much in the past couple of weeks,
KELLY SLATER

I haven't surfed since Japan—not even one wave.
KELLY SLATER

If I were to win on the Gold Coast, I think it would probably force me to look at going for another ...
KELLY SLATER

It was a fun trip for her.
KELLY SLATER

What we're trying to do is create futuristic surf communities.
KELLY SLATER

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.
KELLY SLATER

It's all about where your mind's at,
KELLY SLATER

I was just living in the moment, ... That's something I've been trying to do this year. I wasn't wor...
KELLY SLATER

Good catch -- I mean, a good throw.
KELLY SLATER

This was the most emotional title of my career. I was the youngest champion, and now I'm the oldest.
KELLY SLATER

When I started surfing, I'd forget about everyone and everything and just go out and surf, ... I sur...
KELLY SLATER

[Kelly Slater dijo desde el saque que Mar Ohno es un tablista que no debería ser subestimado por na...
KELLY SLATER

so I won't miss my cartoons.
KELLY SLATER

It may have been one wave in one heat but by him winning he gained 178 points on me and if I'd won I...
KELLY SLATER

Andy gets ahead of the pack, it will be, but if he falls between Fanning and Munro then they could s...
KELLY SLATER

I call him 'Danger' and he ripped the other day,
KELLY SLATER

It's a magical start. It kind of gives me a nice little cushion there. If I just surf loose and get ...
KELLY SLATER

A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around and you have to time ...
KELLY SLATER

It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big,...
KELLY SLATER

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed t...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

They're very supportive of what we do. They're making the point that we have helped many detainees.
ALLAN SLATER

Most of the kidnappings are of Iraqi citizens.
ALLAN SLATER

They're very supportive of what we do.
ALLAN SLATER

Well, it's a little bit of a mix of hope and distress. Hope because we still see three of our friend...
ALLAN SLATER

We want to make it clear to the kidnappers that these people were working for the good of the Iraqi ...
ALLAN SLATER

Seeing three of our four friends was very distressing. We are really asking the kidnappers to consid...
ALLAN SLATER

One of the best things we can do for ourselves and for our detained friends is to keep doing our wor...
ALLAN SLATER

When these people are released - and I believe they will be - they will be dumped onto the streets o...
ALLAN SLATER

If we left Iraq, we would be abandoning our friends.
ALLAN SLATER

The confirmed number by the American forces now is 14,600 Iraqis detained in American prisons alone ...
ALLAN SLATER

The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting....
CHRISTIAN SLATER

My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.&#...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a b...
HELEN SLATER

I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running....
NIGEL SLATER

If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sex...
PHILIP SLATER

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner ...
NIGEL SLATER

I'm certainly grateful that there were projects that I did that people responded to. It would be...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Strike and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, ...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Hey you little sneak, how much time do I have? You cheeky bastard
CHRISTIAN SLATER

We read some of (Fox's) writings and sang a hymn that he had changed some of the words to a little b...
ALAN SLATER

We asked (the parish pastor) if we could have a service for our friend there, and he agreed. He said...
ALAN SLATER

It certainly looks better than it has in past years.
ALAN SLATER

I had such a lack of respect for women that I just treated them as a hobby, trying to live up to the...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Woodall was outstanding. He had total command of the mound and three pitches. They got one good swin...
TOM SLATER

In my 13 years at Winfield there would be occasions to subsidize the junior varsity team. This is a ...
CHUCK SLATER

I'm thrilled. I'm glad the prosecutors felt this case was worthy of dismissal. I'm really happy.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

It is only 10 minutes but it is high intensity and you work almost to the point of total fatigue.
BILLY SLATER

Mum and dad still live up there and everyone's OK, although (the cyclone) has affected people I know...
BILLY SLATER

They always give it to me a bit up here.
BILLY SLATER

When you start seeing an area that was all tundra, and now all of a sudden, you see more shrubs or y...
ANDREW SLATER

Thawing permafrost could send considerable amounts of water to the oceans.
ANDREW SLATER

For me, this new album represents his best collection of material in a long time. All of his records...
ANDREW SLATER

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

When I was at Florida, I had told him I really liked him. And when he decided to leave Miami, he rem...
TOM SLATER

Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was al...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

All too often we get mired in the short-term battles. The PC industry is good at increasing megahert...
MICHAEL SLATER

In private they're talking big time about England's reverse swing and this is a huge hurdle for them...
MICHAEL SLATER

I still think we're going to win the Ashes.
MICHAEL SLATER

Let's just say that there was a settlement but, like many other creditors, I've been left out of poc...
MICHAEL SLATER

Both players were going so well that I was intrigued by their decision to take the offer of bad ligh...
MICHAEL SLATER

The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for peo...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

I am a gypsy, in a way. It's a condition of my profession.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

The case is dismissed and we are very pleased with the outcome. It was everybody's decision that it ...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

The case is over,
CHRISTIAN SLATER

and Young Guns II.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

I've always been fond of Winona Ryder.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

I'm not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power ...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Change can take place only when liberal and radical pressures are both strong. Intelligent liberals ...
PHILIP SLATER

A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing fo...
PHILIP SLATER

I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more f...
PHILIP SLATER

You do not build a rail system and it is there forever. It has to be replaced or rehabilitated every...
CLIFF SLATER

From the starting kickoff we controlled the tempo of the game, playing hard for all four quarters. T...
DAVID SLATER

We met and talked about playing smarter. Some of the guys had struggled with what club to hit and ho...
DAVID SLATER

Sweet Bird of Youth.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Well before she became famous — or infamous, depending on where you cast your vote — Loftus's fi...
LAUREN SLATER

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I suppos...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

He gave me a pat on the back and said not to worry. He said there were no hard feelings.
BILLY SLATER

His style is not to go too deeply into the homework, but to surround himself with key people who del...
WAYNE SLATER

It's not really about the stations; it's about people's lifestyles. All the pretty pictures in the w...
CLIFF SLATER

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

The thing is, everything you read about me is true. That's the scariest thing...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

That was a little uncomfortable
CHRISTIAN SLATER

True Romance.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

This is the process. It just shows that someone can accuse you of anything.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

When it comes to juveniles, we can arrest them, but with the system set up the way it is, the fines ...
KEN SLATER

The Easter shift really exposed the soft underbelly of those retailers that have been struggling.
TODD SLATER

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who woul...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

This won't be a habit for us. It's over. It's done. All that losing ended today.
DIETRIC SLATER

I don't think most of us are mentally ready (for the NIT). The mindset is 'it's over, let's just wor...
DIETRIC SLATER

We wanted to show him we can play a little defense, too.
DIETRIC SLATER

I didn't want to come out of the game.
DIETRIC SLATER

We were playing like an intramural team.
DIETRIC SLATER

We should've played like that from the jump.
DIETRIC SLATER

Coach was so mad, he didn't even fuss at us. We were ashamed at ourselves.
DIETRIC SLATER

That's what we're looking for.
DIETRIC SLATER

They were talking so much on the court, too, and we wanted to shut them up. They were like, 'You're ...
DIETRIC SLATER

All games are big, but you could tell this one was going to be a little bigger. They (Ole Miss) were...
DIETRIC SLATER

I've always been fond of Winona Ryder.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Sometimes you can tell a wise person not only by what he says but also by what he doesn't say. R...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John ...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want t...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

In 2011, Mark Brooks, a consultant to online-dating companies, published the results of an industry ...
DAN SLATER

This information is very important to the public.
DEREK SLATER

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, t...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Itanium won't be relevant for PCs until 2003 at the earliest, more likely 2005,
MICHAEL SLATER

It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in t...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send yo...
CHRISTIAN SLATER

We can fund it out of toll revenues.
CLIFF SLATER

I've got to give credit to Berryville for keeping on even when they were down by 17 points.
GLORY SLATER

We needed more people to step up and score. I was displeased with the defense down the stretch, but ...
GLORY SLATER

We acted like social services, just giving the ball away.
GLORY SLATER

You still have to play to win. Losing can't be an option.
GLORY SLATER

We didn't quit and we hung in there. We didn't lie down and die.
GLORY SLATER

We did do some good things (late).
GLORY SLATER

We were playing not lose instead of playing to win. When you play not to lose, then your offense is ...
GLORY SLATER

I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

We were practically hugging each other in the water it was so good.
EVAN SLATER

That's the big one. It had huge repercussions and is considered one of the top five big-wave discove...
EVAN SLATER

He defined a whole genre of surf photography. He was a very competitive person, so he always wanted ...
EVAN SLATER

It is going to be unique to Fort Wayne. It will be in the center of town, and something that people ...
MARK SLATER

We were outraged, to put it mildly.
MARK SLATER

It's the next level of triple-play [data, voice and video], the ability to differentiate per custome...
MARK SLATER

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and th...
PHILIP SLATER

The time has come for Australia to drop Matthew Hayden,
MICHAEL SLATER

I can't speak for all women, but I do think that... I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely...
HELEN SLATER

Please don't follow in my footsteps. I'm already knee-deep in them, and am sinking rapidly...
TONY JAMES SLATER

TMT, too much testosterone. Way more dangerous than TNT.
ROBERT L. SLATER

And then came the three-toed sloth. Stupid sloth. It was a crazy-looking beastie, all arms and brist...
TONY JAMES SLATER

I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
WALT KELLY

In like a dimwit, out like a light.
WALT KELLY

Every burden is a blessing.
WALT KELLY

Television can be a very fickle place.
MEGYN KELLY

There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New...
KELLY PRICE

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to v...
KELLY WEARSTLER

I think Miami is such a beautiful, sexy, gorgeous place. I love the people there.
MINKA KELLY

Everything happens for a reason. But I would love to still be at Clemson.
CHAD KELLY

Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.
KELLY ROWLAND

I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold ho...
KELLY WEARSTLER

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a...
PATSY KELLY

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing ...
PATSY KELLY

I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY

I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY

I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY

When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY

Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY

You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY

I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY

In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
R. KELLY

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. KELLY

I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY

Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated....
R. KELLY

You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein...
R. KELLY

Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot...
R. KELLY

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp...
R. KELLY

My greatest competition is, well, me.
R. KELLY

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu...
R. KELLY

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou...
R. KELLY

I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l...
R. KELLY

I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
R. KELLY

Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to l...
SCOTT KELLY

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geom...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
KELLY JONES

I am a karmayogi-someone who becomes conscious of herself and the Divine through work, not through m...
KELLY CUTRONE

I do sing in the car. I actually sing Britney Spears songs in the car - me and a close friend of min...
KELLY ROWLAND

Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin...
MARK KELLY

You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-...
KELLY AYOTTE

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
MOIRA KELLY

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our e...
SUE KELLY

Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a ...
SUE KELLY

Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no out...
SUE KELLY

I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm...
R. KELLY

I remember trying to explain the class system to a Canadian friend when we started at RADA. The funn...
KATHERINE KELLY

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of...
KEVIN KELLY

I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of ...
KELLY BROOK

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of ce...
KEVIN KELLY

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
KEVIN KELLY

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.
KELLY BROOK

We found Trent and pulled him off the leggy girl. “Trent, it’s time to get home before your pare...
AMANDA KELLY

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year....
KELLY CUTRONE

Sometimes the fear of your soul's purpose is overridden by your heart's knowing that now is the time...
KELLY MARTIN

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly s...
KELLY CUTRONE

We have met the enemy and it is us.
WALT KELLY

My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.

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My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.

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