Best 238 quotes in «wave quotes» category

I had been digging so much for my show, Minimal Wave - constantly finding fresh old material to play every week - that I ended up discovering all these obscure bands that no one had really heard here. It was very exciting to be able to play their records on the air for a new audience and be able to get instant feedback.

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

I like to tell the students the radio business's like surfing. You get knocked off your board by a wave, you get back up, stabilize, regain your balance and keep going. One thing I can guarantee them is that everything will change. You have to be ready for it. But that's life. Life constantly changes.

I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is.

I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!

I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk.

I'm doing a lot of boogie-boarding now. It's actually better exercise, I get a lot more waves, and if I'm out in big surf, I can duck under the waves much easier.

I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.

I love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves - that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I'm small and fragile.

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

I'm surfing the giant life wave.

I need a big wave to really excel. The smaller stuff is a bit like...ballet for me.

I never thought I was going to be an actor. And I never really thought of myself as one. Even though I keep working. I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.

I remember my comic strips being called "new wave." It bugged me.

I really believe in 3-D. I really think it is the wave of the future for cinema.

It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.

It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations.

It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we're still soaked in it.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

I've surfed once in the gulf. I wouldn't really call it surfing. It was like an ex-boyfriend pushing me into the waves or something. That was my limited experience.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.

Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It’s the same for you. It’s the same for everyone.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.

Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.

Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

New wave disco was coming to the fore then, and we were at a different point entirely. I like to listen to dance music, but I don't think I'm primarily a dance music writer.

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

New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.

Nicolas Sarkozy said he could see a wave rising. For once he was right. The wave's coming; it's high, its strong, and it's going to smack him in the face.

Now it's time for India to steer ourselves, ride the waves and decide on our direction, destination and speed.

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

No doubt there is a Scandinavian wave. I guess everybody is just surfing their wave until it breaks and hoping it won't be too soon.