Top 141 Waves Quotes

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it’s not. It usually just comes in waves.

I think TV in general is camp. ‘X Factor’ is camp, ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ is camp. Basically, an orange man comes down some stairs and waves at the camera. People are drawn to that.

But marriage goes in waves. You’ve got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don’t put the work and the effort into it. You’ve got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

When I recorded ‘Waves’ I was in England, and I was there for months.

Surfing is definitely something I used to do a lot more before I was working, but I know the waves will always be there, and it’s something that, when I’m not traveling as much, I’ll definitely get back into.

No surfer wants to be the photographer, especially when the waves are good.

Now I have a standard for how I make sure people do not speak to me in a way that I feel uncomfortable with. When I was younger, I didn’t have that. I was like, ‘Try not to make waves.’ I wanted everybody to like me, and so I stifled a lot of the discomfort that I had.

Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum… and with the heart… and with the rest of the body.

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.

I love to swim in the ocean in big waves.

For me, it’s about eating a bunch of fruit and exercising, which opens up the creativity, makes it easier to give ideas a chance and bubble to the surface. I’m no angel, but it helps me, as does hiking, heading to the ocean to catch some waves – for me, sweating it out is definitely good for the creative process.

In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That’s enough for me; that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don’t really need a record every year. They don’t even want one.

I have this big, old, oversize Levi’s denim jacket, and I honestly think it might be for a dude. And on the back, it says, ‘Catch feelings, not waves,’ which I love because I’m very emotional.

When you’re playing Wembley Arena the emotion comes in waves, but in a tiny club it hits you in the face.

I got desensitized by riding so many big waves that I don’t really get a rush anymore.

What happens when we’re willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad – but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined.

In my work, there’s a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

I love to surf. Hawaii has some of the best waves in the world, and the most consistent as well. That’s always fun.

I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

Liv Morgan is dumb if she thinks she can make waves in NXT by herself.

We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

It is seen that both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now, it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time – the two concepts are too different.

Our pool is outdoors, but it’s heated, and I’ve got one of those machines that produces waves you have to swim against; like a jogging treadmill, really, only it’s in water. Basically, it means you can have a small pool, swim for miles, and get nowhere.

As long as you don’t make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that’s condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

The surfing – the waves in Indonesia are amazing.

Anything can happen at Pipeline; it’s one of those waves where the most amazing wave can come through in one minute, and then nothing can happen for an hour.

Well, it was – big wave surfing was my job. And I had to accomplish some great feat every year. And we kept finding bigger and bigger waves until there was no wave too big.

I’m a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

I’ve had many managers, and learned a lot from them, the good ones always stayed even-keeled, never rode the waves.

From drought-parched Brazil to the increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean, from the rising seas along the Florida coast to the punishing heat waves hitting South Asia, in communities large and small, rich and poor, urban and remote, we can see the irrefutable evidence of what science has long told us was coming.

If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?

In Nazare, the ocean is known as a place of death, not of riding waves.

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?

If you find your freedom, if you find something that cannot be taken from you, then you’re free. If your freedom depends on what you have, or you position, or your security, or anything that is just passing, because those are just waves of things.

A guest star is a whole different responsibility. It’s much different than being a regular. You come in and it’s a lot of unfamiliar faces and you want to try to fit in as best you can, but also you want to stay there without making waves.

To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it’s waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.

I like a pretty, undone look. So I wash my hair every other day so it doesn’t get dried out, and I let it air-dry. If I want soft waves, I’ll braid it first.

When I win, I send shock waves through the boxing world.

Everything, however complicated – breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests – is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn’t offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws.

I use New York to talk about home, but the ideas in ‘Colossus’ could be transferred to other cities. The story about Central Park is really about the first day of spring in any park. The Coney Island chapter is really about beaches and summer and heat waves.

That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can’t get settled enough to focus.

When I was sixteen I was terrified and I vowed never to surf waves over ten feet tall.

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

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.

Sunspots are hubs of intense magnetic activity and they trigger solar flares that launch charged particles, X-rays, ultraviolet radiation and radio waves at the Earth.

Every part of me is a surfer. I love surfing, and I love the waves that I surf. So that’s the thing that I get excited about most: What kind of waves am I going to be able to surf? Am I going to be surfing alone, or will we be surfing waves that no one’s surfed before? Second to that is photography.