Wave Quotes

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Sea, Boisterous

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evil, Alike, Washes

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau

Yourself, Live, Find

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
Jimi Hendrix

Down, Die, High

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.
Mitch Hedberg

Dangerous, Hands, Cocky

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
Steven Wright

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Experience, Live

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
Nagarjuna

Together, Down, Move

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Alan Watts

Universe, Ocean, Physical

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Andre Gide

Beauty, Today, Mind

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Bette Davis

Life, Love, Great

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
Carlos Santana

History, Moving, Challenge

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
Hugo Black

Political, Away, Wind

I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'
Kim Kardashian

Women, Beautiful, Remember

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Ovid

Again, Nor, Return

This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars.
Paul Ryan

Crisis, Country, Nation

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

Music, Time, Joy

I'm surfing the giant life wave.
William Shatner

Life, Surfing, Giant

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Future, Fighting, Coming

This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.
Bill Maher

Said, Stop, Hot

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
Jeff Bridges

Life, Wonderful, Challenges

I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.
Shia LaBeouf

Else, Anyone, Jump

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.
Paul Walker

Experience, Awesome, Ocean

The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Revolution, Soon, Reach

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Martha Graham

Nature, Human, Flower

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
Dave Mustaine

Guitar, Influence, Metal

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Arthur C. Clarke

Fact, Hopeful, Symbolism

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connolly

Life, Success, Calm

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

Fun, Game, Around

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
Jack Nicholson

Film, Baby, Foreign

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