Wave Quotes - page 2

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural. (Olivia De Havilland)
I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas. View quote
Anjelica Huston
Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed. View quote
Albert Abraham Michelson
If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On happiness: "For me, it's harmony resulting from the cosmic wave, not the happiness resulting from the social wave" View quote
Vangelis
Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore; Than labour in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar; Oh rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver; Thro' the wave that runs for ever; By the island in the river. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee, A place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse, And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all. View quote
Merle Haggard
It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s:... (Alan Greenspan)
Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level. View quote
Lester Bangs
There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave. View quote
Christian Slater
The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song - not one. Not two. View quote
Anthony de Mello
I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled. View quote
Paul Scofield
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave, He is wisdom to the mighty, he is succour to the brave, So the world shall be his footstool, and the soul of Time his slave, Our God is marching on. View quote
Julia Ward Howe
So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better. View quote
Abby Sunderland
The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water. View quote
Nhat Hanh
The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean. (Paramahansa Yogananda)
Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind. View quote
Marianne Williamson
Toll for the brave, The brave that are no more All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore. View quote
William Cowper
Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand. View quote
Asher Peres