Waving Quotes

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. Thompson

Person, Turn, Eye

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu

Career, Two, Else

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
Kobe Bryant

Win, Whatever, Water

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir

Storm, Few, Silent

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce

Patriotism, Strong, Country

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.
Jonathan Davis

Trying, Play, Bring

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.
Emma Thompson

Life, Daily, Film

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Feeling, Saying, Thinking

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.
Peter O'Toole

Morning, Famous, Down

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell

Baseball, Old, Corner

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.
Henning Mankell

Hope, Brain, Die

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.
Rose McGowan

Lipstick, Red, Womb

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
Richard Le Gallienne

Nature, Her, Road

A lot people I know - it drives them crazy when they're watching, to see the people with their signs and waving, but there's something that's very inclusive about it.
Katie Couric

Crazy, Watching, Signs

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.
Joshua Bell

Nothing, Play, Hands

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music, Act, Miss

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.
Hayao Miyazaki

Light, Weather, Wind

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.
Wil Wheaton

Respect, Angry, Drunk

Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
Bruce Jenner

Love, Time, Country

I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so when that Olympic Stadium is packed full of people waving British flags.
Jessica Ennis

Experience, Step, Full

I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him 'he can't see you'.
Anne Robinson

Someone, Him, Tell

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.
Kevin Rollins

Money, Someone, Cannot

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?
Nigel Kennedy

Why, Playing, Stand

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.
Coolio

Down, Wrong, Smoking

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.
Gregory Peck

Great, Hat, Einstein

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
Fanny Kemble

Weather, Road, Excitement

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.
Anthony Daniels

Around, Loved, Hands

When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Felt, Hands, Travelling

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.
Stevie Smith

Life, Him, Thought

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