As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

With its breezy guitars and sweet backing vocals, 'Norway' blows away any semblance of Beach House's previously bleak approach to pop.

If athletics wasn't an option, I'd probably work at like a surf shop in Hawaii on the beach, just dishing out surf boards.

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

We always hear Compton and Long Beach, but Watts is always overlooked.

I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the board.

I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.

I don't really go to the beach.

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

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

I'll be on a beach somewhere when I'm 40.

At Pebble Beach, even on your good shots, you've got to hit it to the correct side of the holes to save pars.

There's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand.

There is not much sun, but I didn't move to Manchester to go to the beach.

I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.

Who doesn't want that salty beach hair?

Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.

Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach reads; others thought all romances are. Some people thought only mass market paperbacks are eligible for beach read standards.