Wave Quotes
1462 Wave quotes by 1065 unique authors
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Daniel held himself very still, waiting for the wave of jealousy that never came. He was furious with the man who’d taken advantage of her…
— Julia Quinn
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I’m saying your name in the grocery store, I’m saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost,…
— Richard Siken
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Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Mildred waves Carlos over. 'Let me look at you.' She eyes him up and down. 'I saw you when you walked in. What's with all…
— Simone Elkeles
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Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for…
— Isaac Marion
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He dipped his head, placing his mouth to the space below her ear. He nipped her there, just a tiny bite that sent a wave…
— Unknown Author
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This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming…
— Alethea Kontis
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Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably:…
— Rick Riordan
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Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air;…
— Wendy Mass
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In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally…
— Pablo Neruda
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Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched,…
— C.S. Lewis
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The Light Queen’s voice stilled the turbulent waves of my soul, singing calm and grace to every fiber of my being. Neamh. Ah, there, I…
— Kiersten White
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You are everything that's ever been my favourite thing," she wanted to tell him. "You're my love song, my birthday cake, the sound of ocean…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in their company. You…
— Michael Ondaatje
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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…
— Jodi Picoult
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Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip…
— Ram Dass
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Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at…
— Frederick Douglass
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When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold,…
— Anthony Powell
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Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?
— Ken Follett
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I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding me of rain…
— Haruki Murakami
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Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.
— Elif Safak
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The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't…
— Tana French
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