Wave Quotes

1462 Wave quotes by 1065 unique authors

The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every… — Alan Watts
I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it… — Gary Paulsen
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,… — Edmund Spenser
We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was… — Ian Mcewan
Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight,… — Patrick Ness
Why don't I just give you a pair of my panties to hang around your neck? Then whenever you feel jealous, you can wave them… — Jeaniene Frost
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m — John Lennon
We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly… — L.A. Meyer
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. — David Foster Wallace
But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoyâ€™ll be able to do is send sparks at… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will… — Virginia Woolf
She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave… — Virginia Woolf
It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was… — Aimee Friedman
He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the… — Nathanael West
Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT?… — Terry Pratchett
There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the… — Norman Mailer
They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance. — Mark Helprin
Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves. — Alain de Botton
He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope… — Thomas Pynchon

Who Wrote These Wave Quotes

1,065 authors contributed a total of 1,462 Wave Quotes, led by these top contributors: