#waves

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous! ↗

— Wally Schirra

#across #ear #girl #her #looks

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#hasten #like #make #minutes #our

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#between #complete #equally #mental #reigns

On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#day #enough #gulf #gulf stream #itself

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#certain #characteristic #chemical #come #conditions

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#beautiful #blue #children #cliff #cup

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#fallow #fertile #rejection #times #tremendous

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#airwaves #chance #decent #decent people #good

Masturbation is love in a microwave. Be sure to use plenty of plastic wrap. ↗

— Bauvard

#masturbation #microwaves #love

Before he sat down, my internal heat-seekers sensed what was coming my way: deep blue eyes that melted girls like Velveeta in a microwave. I tried to resist those microwave eyes, but sometimes there's no defense against them. I had a feeling I'd be seeing him weeping over my coffin later that night. ↗

— Natalie Standiford

#humor #microwaves #natalie-standiford #humor