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Waves Quotes

During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.

Home Live Waves Impossible Think Go

I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a few millimetres in wavelength, but I wanted to get shorter wavelengths; I wanted to get into the infra-red because I saw there was a lot more to be done there.

Charles H. Townes

Science Waves Short Doing Down Done

One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!

Bethany Hamilton

Work Good Competition Me Waves Wave

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.

Werner Heisenberg

Waves Solution Pictures Experiment

The world is not made up of particles and waves and beams of light with a definite existence. Instead, the world works in a much more exploratory way. It is aware of all the possibilities at once and trying them out all the time. That is a hard thing to picture.

Time Light World Waves Picture Way

Book collectors are thrill-seekers. It is a vegetarian hunt to be sure, without much exertion or risk, but the endorphin rush of the chase and the adrenaline high of the capture are much the same with first editions as I imagine they must be in the pursuit of 10-point stags, largemouth bass, or 20-foot waves at Maverick's.

Book Waves Risk Capture First High

Call me curl-crazed, but there's just something about a head full of waves that can command any room and make any outfit more interesting.

Elaine Welteroth

Me Waves Interesting Outfit More

It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.

Beautiful Great Waves Always Caught

What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?

Future Heart Thoughts World Waves

I didn't understand the Weber bar and how gravitational waves interacted with it. I sat and thought about it over a weekend, trying to prepare for the lecture for the following Monday. I asked myself how would I do it. The simplest way... was a thought experiment.

Myself Monday Waves Thought Weekend

In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

Fear Time Anger Waves Evening Jokes

One time, I went bodysurfing in St. Bart's with a friend. The waves were so intense, and my body was just getting torn up by them. But it was so freeing... but also I'm never doing that again.

Friend Time Waves Doing Body Never

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.

Best Parents Me Waves Deep Thought

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

Ocean People Waves Say Will Shells

As long as I'm getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.

Fun Having Fun Waves Care Take Care

The waves are subtle, altering spacetime and the distance between objects as far apart as the Earth and the Moon by much less than the width of an atom. As such, gravitational radiation has not been directly detected yet. We hope to change that soon.

Change Hope Moon Waves Earth Atom

A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.

John Millington Synge

Fog Small Waves Circle Lost Nothing

I've been surfing several times, and I'm terrible at it. But what I found was that you're usually waiting on the board, hanging out, watching the waves come in. And one that you think is a big wave is not actually one.

Waiting Waves Think Wave You Out

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

Stephen Hawking

Sky Waves Gravity May Would Quantum

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.

Sea Mountain Waves Foundation Deep

The requests for blurbs seem to come in waves. I'm not sure what precipitates them. I think it must be excruciating for editors to draft those elaborate letters asking for a blurb, and I know it's torturous for us writers to ask directly. But publishers encourage us to. Rock and a hard place.

Waves Think Place Know Letters Rock

As I'd go out learning to surf, I'd feel the power of waves coming over my body. It's like you're with God.

Learning God Power Waves You Body

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

Nature Sea Waves Regret Useless

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Leader Job People Waves Judge Tide

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