Quotes about Waves

Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist.

William Shakespeare

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

Ralph Marston

You're always trying to tell a story in the first person. What we're seeing now though is instead of a rhyme at a local performance or an album that comes out and makes some national waves, we're seeing this translated into an actual Hollywood film and a video game.

Thomas Defrantz

Eventually, the waves get big enough and the Jell-O fails.

Jim Hooper

The sound waves propagate out through the material and heat it up. It acts in a way similar to the way neutrinos would act but with more efficiency.

Adam Burrows

Jesus Christ - his weed is NUTS! I'm not much of a weed guy - I'll take whatever pills you have - but the weed, man, always hits me wrong. But you try and say no to Willie Nelson when he goes [pretends to take a toke and waves it in my direction], man, you CAN'T do it!

Johnny Knoxville

You are like a little rowboat in a big ocean. There are waves from across the Pacific, waves from the east, and they're rocking your boat up and down.

Bill Conerly

The current crop of England players has yet to make any waves in international rugby.

Mark Evans

Often, things happen in clusters that have no explanation except a chance occurrence. People like to blame it on radio waves or something. It's a natural human tendency to want to connect the dots, but most of the time there are not connections.

Dr. Ken Gershman

This country really is very culturally diverse. Some may say 'diverse' has become a hackneyed word by now, but the fact is that America continues to absorb people from all over the globe. While we hear voices of those who oppose immigration and want to resist further waves of newcomers, I think America is constantly renewed and revitalized by creative minds who arrive here from all over the world.

Alvin Rosenfeld

Have you considered that if you "don't make waves," nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?

Theodore Isaac Rubin

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Antony Jay

Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

Bible

It's quite entertaining; it's different. The wind, the waves and the motion of the ocean is very exciting. The wind is extremely relaxing. You're in the middle of water, so it's very calming. You're away from everything else so you get this euphoric feeling; you just feel free. It's good for a family, to just enjoy yourself and have fun, especially if it's your first time on a yacht.

Nadine Roberts

I put in my order and Neptune came through for us. There?s a charm and a mystique about Surf-O-Rama that we always get waves.

Jim Lucas

Less of the negative waves, Moriarty.

Donald Sutherland

I agree that metal doesn't ever really go away, but it does have waves of popularity, and right now it seems to be growing. I don't think it's quite hit its peak again, but it is on the way up. Major labels are trying to grab hold of a lot of the metal bands, and that whole thing is coming around again too; you can kind of see the whole cycle repeating itself.

Tim Lambesis

These are two major waves in America. One is the black return to the South. The other is Hispanics going to places where everybody else is moving, following the jobs.

William Frey

We may not be able to get much bigger (waves) than we are today. But every year we are able to bring better quality surfers to the event. Better surfers, better vendors who are more civic-minded and less commercial, that is what we try to do every year to improve the family friendly environment.

Dick Catri

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

William Sharp

When I am on a stage, I am the focus of thousands of eyes and it gives me strength. I feel that something, some energy, is flowing from the audience into me. I actually feel stronger because of these waves.

Lynn Fontanne

People are willing to spend if we give them something new, ... But there really are no new waves of technology.

Michael Capellas

And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.

Anne Bronte

We expect waves to be up to 28 feet above normal. That would overwhelm a lot of flood defenses.

Tom Larsen

They're better than us, I mean, they are flat-out better than us. They just kept executing and throwing waves of kids at us. We gave everything we had, unfortunately, our tank was empty by the end of the game.

Jason Buckley

Once waves get up to this size, there's a lot of water moving. There's going to be a lot of currents. Waves will be breaking in areas where we don't normally see them break and you can get in trouble.

Jim Howe

He waves and that's about it. He stays to himself.

George Coleman

This hydrogen gas emits radio waves with a wavelength of 21 centimeters, so they come in at about 1,420 megahertz on the radio dial. We were able to find that there is a magnetic field permeating this gas cloud and that its direction is pointing towards us above the cloud and then flips to pointing away from us on the bottom.

Timothy Robishaw

Those strong winds and waves separated the more experienced sailors from the less experienced.

Gilberto Rivera

There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

Frank Herbert

I remember being on Sabine Lake at midnight, and Hurricane Rita was several miles offshore. Standing waves of water were being pushed into the lake at 4-6 feet per second. It was a very dark night so we had to work with headlamps. It was quite a sight.

Ben Mcgee

You can't manage the ocean unless you know what it is doing. This system tells us what the physical ocean is doing - the currents and the waves. . . . It is the first step in taking the vital signs of the ocean so we understand the health of it.

Warner Chabot

The waves were so big. I told him I was going to head for the bridge and go in between the bridge so it wouldn't be quite as choppy. But the next thing I know, here comes this big 'ole wave. It just rolled us right on over.

Charles Bishop

I think that the idea of just saying we're going to put a cap on it is going to send shock waves through the eligible staff. It seems to me you're going to have some pretty unhappy people. By putting this out, you're going to have people scared.

Chris Miller

With the 15-foot waves, we did get some beach erosion and high water spray on Route 5.

Tony Ansuini

In the first year, it looked as if we were really gonna aim for the highest thing possible. And then, gradually, sort of like the waves eating away at a sand castle, you know, they just wore away, bit by bit and it's gotten more and more ordinary.

Paul Goldberger

We had two waves of wind. The passing of the initial front was pretty violent. Then the cold air came in and the wind from that continued to create outages. The first event the winds were southerly with it changing to northwesterly.

Kevin Howes

The long lulls allowed everyone to get back out there in between waves. It kind of added to the competition because we were all jockeying for every wave.

Tyler Smith

There is that desire to go surf the waves by yourself, just you and nature and I will never do it again, never.

Davis Bunn

It's a matter of choice. But there's no substitute for being in class. Just as they have to spend a certain amount of time on the waves to attain a necessary level of skill, they also have to spend enough time in the classroom to attain a high level of knowledge. Sure, some people have succeeded in life without a proper education, but those are few and far between.

Sara Stern

The real story of Los Angeles food is in the waves of immigrants who came through. So talking about the food really depends on when you're talking about, how recent, and how specific you want to get.

Russ Parsons

Waves constantly breaking on the structure start to erode it and make it become unstable. But I don't think that was a major factor in the canals. You just don't have the (open area) to allow wave growth to occur.

Greg Stone

The only problem comes when a hurricane moves in too close. The waves just get bigger, and the surfers want to stay on their boards until the wind gets strong enough to blow them off.

Joe Wooden

Our species evolved in Africa 200,000 years ago. We didn't move out until 100,000 years ago, and there were several waves. The oldest evidence of species outside of Africa was in Europe about 40,000 years ago, and in Australia 50,000 years ago.

Carl Zimmer

His intercranial blood pressure is back to normal, his brain waves look good and his CAT-scan was nearly normal, ... It's really wonderful.

Dr. Margaret Goodman

It covers many subject areas: posture and breathing, physiology of the lungs, sound waves, reading music, rhythm. I believe music is an important part of a well-rounded education.

Rosemary Collins

If I set up waves with known amplitudes and synthesize them, I'll find that for essentially all random combinations of phases, the thing I get is an object not confined. It takes a very clever combination of the phases of all those waves to add up to something in only one region; and cancel out everywhere else.

Veit Elser

I think the thing that helps is the ocean swells. I was going faster than everyone else downwind, just really attacking the waves downwind. I'm not used to waves like that.

Reed Johnson

Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...

Hugh Elliott

People get a lot of 'wow' here. You can see a sky so crowded with swallows, it reduces the amount of sunlight coming to the earth. By late October, the sea roils with waves of scoters going by and the counts have been in excess of 45,000 a day. You don't see much of this anymore. This is the way North America used to be.

Pete Dunne

Essentially, the waves that traveled through the area outside the inner core?the crust, the mantle, the outer core?are all the same. Only when they travel through the inner core are they different.

Xiaodong Song

I'm incredibly grateful for this opportunity. Every day I'm at work and I look out at the ocean and see the crystal blue waves crashing on the beach, I just look up and thank the universe for putting me here.

Daniel Dae Kim

We're grappling with how and where these waves originate, because about one in every ten will form into a named tropical storm. This shows us the amplitude and strength of these waves as they come off Africa and into the Atlantic.

Chris Velden

The captain took the first speedboat, even though he should go last. There was yelling and screaming and people dying and there were people dead in their life vests, and there were huge waves.

Nabil Taghyan

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

Fanny Crosby

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Teilhard De Chardin

There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least... Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.

William S. Cohen

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy].

Michael Caine

We would see 50 or more waves. It turned out that during one of these periods of recording, the biggest crest-peak wave that we measured was 91 feet.

William Teague

We only have theories about the biggest waves, because it's hard to get observations to quantify the theory.

David Vallee

The sea was very rough. There were many waves. They were in a wooden boat with a lot of people and a lot of goods on board. It seems that a wave broke the wood and water started to enter.

Francois Mahouwa

I saw a few waves come up just before our heat right near the pier. So I figured if I'm going to lose, I'm going to sit right there. Then I figured either go big, or go home.

Jake Kirschenbaum

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.

Paul Von Hindenburg

The waves were heavy. A lot of people had to be rescued.

Drew Delis

The sound waves are vibrations, ... It's the ability to readjust your senses so you can feel the music.

David Mason

Essentially, we activate an area, ... We can do this anywhere in the brain. Once an area is activated, it responds by sending signals, waves that travel through the axons (nerve fibers) to other regions of the brain. At the same time, we can record how the rest of the brain is responding.

Giulio Tononi

People wonder, hey, what's going on with our climate. But we've seen these kind of heat waves in southwest Europe before.

Dale Mohler

I walked beside the evening sea and dreamed a dream that could not be; the waves that plunged along the shore said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!

George William Curtis

It's just nice to be out there getting waves. The weather doesn't play that big of a role for getting myself in the water. As long as the waves are big, that's good.

Brad King

The water came up so quick- the waves pretty high.

Ernie Jackson

Stroke follow strokes, the sparkling ingot shines,/ Flows the red slag, the lengthening bar refines;/ Cold waves, immersed, the glowing mass congeal,/ And turn to adamant the hissing Steel.

Erasmus Darwin

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon