#wave

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas. ↗

— Anjelica Huston

#although #areas #beaches #born #cancer

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide. ↗

— Antony Jay

#his #job #judge #leader #other

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#early #follow #go #humans #lions

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#bits #chicken #clock #discrete #dishwasher

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light. ↗

— Max von Laue

#arrangement #basic #basic principles #corresponding #decisive

During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#distant #during #each #exposure #formation

I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world. ↗

— Brian Molko

#bringing #held #i #into #people

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts. ↗

— Max Muller

#breathe #dash #deep #follows #forgotten

In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this! ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#article #beckham #believe #bending #big

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#century #early #freedom #immigrants #jewish