Top 292 Wave Quotes

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Alan Watts
Jose Mourinho doesn’t have a magic wand, and you wave the wand, and everything goes the way you want.
Petr Cech
I don’t think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.
Elisabeth Rohm
As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there’s a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In ’05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.
Jason Aldean
I wanted to be the first to ride a 100-foot wave.
Garrett McNamara
‘The 5th Wave’ is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?
Rick Yancey
My generation, with Vlade Divac, Drazen Petrovic, Arvydas Sabonis, that was the first wave of European players that kind of opened the door for the world.
Toni Kukoc
‘Course, ‘Santini’ bombed in England, y’know. It came out at the height of the New Wave, which couldn’t have been a worse time for a solo singer trying to sell rock melodies.
Chris Rea
If you look at the statistics, it's a lot more dangerou

If you look at the statistics, it’s a lot more dangerous to ride down a highway than a big wave.
Garrett McNamara
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it’s the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
Jerry Saltz
Absolute 80’s is three hours of mainstream 80’s music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70’s to the 90’s.
Nina Blackwood
There’s so much talk about female artists doing their own thing but being super supportive, coming together and doing projects together. I love that whole wave.
MO
I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn’t afford the rights – it was an adaptation of a book called ‘The Wave’ by Morton Rhue.
Jack Thorne
I’ve always wanted to hit that, like, ’13 Going on 30;’ ‘Failure to Launch,’ Matthew McConaughey; ‘What Happens in Vegas,’ Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher’ wave.
Noah Centineo
Some of the greatest hip-hop artists have incorporated elements from electronic shows into their setup. People are taking notice. It’s going to be a new wave.
Pusha T
I’m definitely going to continue to make films in Scotland, but that doesn’t mean it will be exclusively there, and I don’t have any particular need to wave a flag.
David MacKenzie
We must all build national unity, build all revolutionary forces, into one powerful wave to sweep away our main enemy, political imperialism and economic imperialism.
Sukarno
Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of ‘The Simpsons.’ This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.
Mindy Kaling
For me, I’m just trying to keep it fun, keep it interesting, not get stuck on the same sound, the same wave for too long.
Syd
I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was ‘Easy Rider’ and ‘Taxi Driver.’ Everything was gritty.
Gillian Armstrong
The biotechnology wave is similar to the information technology wave of the 1980s and 1990s.
Dietmar Hopp
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Arthur C. Clarke
It’s interesting: in the late ’80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
Kaskade
I’d love if between ‘La La Land’ and ‘The Greatest Showman’ we generate a new wave of movie musicals because, as an art form, musical narrative is so engaging and has produced some of the most iconic moments in cinema history.
Michael Gracey
I’m a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
Jack Nicholson
When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.
Susan Orlean
I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn’t allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn’t let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.
Raf Simons
Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
Earl Derr Biggers
I always say it’s not how big the wave is, it’s how you ride it.
Garrett McNamara
When I’m riding a wave and making it, it’s just like, ‘Alright, yeah, another wave.’ But when you’re getting pounded and thrown in every direction, when you have no control, you really feel alive.
Garrett McNamara
Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
Ulrich Beck
I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.
Mickey Kaus
I know what it’s like to be famous. It’s good money and it’s great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts – beautiful clothes and cars.
Pierce Brosnan
I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France.
Eric Ripert
Everyone in our clique rocks a black bandana with the print ‘EST 19XX’ on them 24/7. As the underdog, you are expected to lose or give up and ‘wave the white towel,’ so that is why our flag is black. We never give up – never surrender. EST means ‘Everyone Stands Together.’ The ’19XX’ is to represent any age.
Machine Gun Kelly
If I could wave a magic wand, I’d break up the banking system.
Kenneth C. Griffin
You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
Oprah Winfrey
If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.
Max von Laue
I have been fortunate to get different types of work, but by and large till 90s for actors like me there were not many opportunities besides playing brother of the heroine or friend of the hero or young college villain after the earlier new wave was consumed by television.
Pankaj Kapur
The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the

The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
My mother and stepfather were documentary filmmakers and, of course, had a very healthy Scandinavian mentality. When it came to cinema, my mother was very obsessed with the French New Wave. That was her generation.
Nicolas Winding Refn
Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.
Vitruvius
We had moved cross-country from upstate New York to Kansas in the heat wave of 1980, with two cars, no air-conditioning, and a black dog. I can still see the infernal temperature of a hundred and nineteen degrees on a bank sign somewhere near Ohio.
Kevin Young
I remember doing this little physical gesture of holding up my foot and having my foot wave around while I held my ankle. It got a big laugh, and when people started laughing, it dumped some chemicals on my brain. It just felt so good.
Paul Rust
As people get more desperate, history suggests that they’re not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They’re gonna turn on each other.
Alan Moore
I was given a chance some time ago, and it changed my life forever. I want to be able to give the same chance to the next generation of artists. There’s a new wave coming, and we are going to be a part of it.
DJ Snake
When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.
Sylvia Plath
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father’s first marriage who were rock ‘n’ roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.
Paul Thomas Anderson
We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the 21st century. It is in all of our best interests to work together. In this new wave of technology, you can’t do it all yourself; you have to form alliances.
Carlos Slim
Nazare is a special place for me; we got married right there, at the lighthouse. The seafood and wine are amazing. Best of all, there are no sharks: they are much more scary than a big wave.
Garrett McNamara
History suggests the 2010s will give rise to a super-unicorn or two that reflect the key tech wave of the decade, the mobile web.
Aileen Lee
If I could wave a magic wand, I would be a size 6 and still be able to eat cake every day.
Amanda de Cadenet
The reason I like Steve Aoki is because I can trace my love of electronic music all the way back to when I was listening to not just new wave but to YMO [Yellow Magic Orchestra] which, to me, was the ultimate Japanese band and launched synth electronic music.
Eric Garcetti
All of a sudden, one day, you’re this boxer that everybody like, or you’re this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you’re this guy that everybody want to touch – be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.
George Foreman
My hair has a natural, beachy wave, so I’m really lucky.
Peyton List
The ‘low’ quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.
Tyler Cowen