No Wave Quotes

The first magic wave kicked the world in the face.

My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave. No one really talked about it in those terms or gave it a name.

Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” Ron: “Throw it away and punch him on the nose.

If the Angels won, the entire Earth would be nothing but one giant Christmas frickin' morning, a choking wave of happiness and warmth and caring and sharing taking over everything.

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.

Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.

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.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

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.

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

Wave bye-bye to your cash cow, 'cause it's leaving the pasture.

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.

I guess you're only as good as the waves.

Sometimes we forget that the top of the wave, the top of the crest is always the bottom, there is no inside without an outside, and there is no up without a down.

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.

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.

Don’t lose faith in the good things, even when life is tough. The good things come in waves, along with the bad.

I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.

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?

You see a wave of populism in the world. There is something wrong. This maybe because of technology.

I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion. I guess I'm hoping to start a wave of first-name usage.

There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!

I think it doesn't happen overnight, that's for sure. As the first gold medalist since 1984, I think cycling needs to ride that wave right now, because people are excited.

I think USA Cycling really needs to ride this wave and start looking at growing the sport. It's a tough one because cycling is such an endurance sport.

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?

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

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.

You can't force other people to like you and you just kind of have to ride the wave. I think I could have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights with that advice.

For you maybe I'm a fool but it's fun. People say you rule me with one wave of your hand. Darling, it's grand, they just don't understand.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.

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

Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

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

I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.

I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company.