Best 238 quotes in «wave quotes» category

Every wave of immigrants who came [to America] were treated pretty badly, but when they all finally became integrated, all of us became Anglo-Saxons.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

Finally Irish were accepted into society and became part of the political system, and there were Kennedys, and so on. But the same is true about other waves of immigrants, like the Jews in the 1950s.

Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time or space, can be described as a series of overlapping sine waves of multiple frequencies and various amplitudes.

Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.

Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.

I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.

I am automatically suspicious of things that wave their symbolism around and do little dances and bludgeon you over the head so that you [Darn] Well Know There's A Symbol Here.

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

I describe my music as a mix of juices - Tropicana orange juice and a little bit of off-brand pineapple juice. I guess you could call it generic-brand pineapple-wave.

I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

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

I didn't want to feel such love for someone else. I still wanted to be the object of that tidal wave.

I don't think we can rule out a wave, I think a Democratic takeover is possible but not probable.

I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.

If a company truly wants to resolve the innovator's dilemma, it does need to be able to create wave after wave of disruptive innovation. And those disruptive innovations will typically grow to the point where they do cause some pain for leading companies. But most disruptive innovations create substantial new growth before they cause that pain.

I feel like I learned a lot working with Don Was, and that I made a good friend. Making music with people, it was the most fun I ever had. I guess a surfer would say that was the funnest wave I ever did.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

If I'm on a boat I will wave to every breathing thing I pass. If I'm not on a boat I try to avoid every breathing thing I pass.

If you have waves of immigration, you better figure out a way to turn those immigrants into red-blooded Americans, or else you end up splintering the society.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

If you're not creating waves, then you're not pushing enough.

I guess I'm just in the flow and riding the wave.

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

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

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

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.

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'll ride the wave, where it takes me!

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.

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

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.

I'm surfing the giant life wave.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.