“What really scares me is Alzheimer's or premature senility, losing that ability to read and enjoy and to write. And you do it, and some days maybe aren't so good, and then some days, you really catch a wave, and it's as good as it ever was.” WritingEnjoyAbilityLosingWaveScarePrematureAlzheimerAlzheimer'sSenility Author:Stephen King
“It's cyclical. I'm riding a wave right now, and I recognize that. I wanna do as much work as I can, do the best I can. And when it's all said and done and they say, "Get outta the water, you're done," I wanna be so exhausted that I look forward to it.” LooksSaidI CanDoneWaterCan DoRight NowWaveRidingExhaustedDo The BestSaid And Done Author:Bryan Cranston
“The government also has to get the public rules right. That means putting a price on carbon, so the cleaner forms of energy become more competitive. As soon as that happens, a tidal wave of new capital, innovation and entrepreneurship will flood into the clean energy space - creating new jobs and opportunities for Americans of all walks of life. We did that for the internet, with public investments in the basic system through the Pentagon, followed by rules that encouraged innovation and competition. And that is why the internet took off in the United States first.” FirstsMeanStatesGovernmentHappensJobsFormOpportunityEnergySpaceWalksUnitedUnited StatesInternetCreatingInnovationCompetitionCleanInvestmentWaveEntrepreneurshipFloodCarbonCleanersNew JobPentagonWalks Of LifeClean EnergyTidal Waves Author:Van Jones
“I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'” LightBeautifulRememberMiddleWaveEasternRemember WhenHispanicJenniferHayek Author:Kim Kardashian
“I don't think we can rule out a wave, I think a Democratic takeover is possible but not probable.” ThinkingDemocraticWaveTakeovers Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza
“Things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me, that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one. There's other stuff out there for them to listen to.” WantNeedsYearsEnoughMightThreeStuffRecordsWaveThree Years Author:Chrissie Hynde
“There is a peak and valley to careers and that includes fame. If you are lucky to ride this wave of fame to a plateau - it won't last there. I guess it is just a blue-collar work ethic that I was raised with.” IfsLastsCareersFameLuckyEthicsBlueRaisedWaveValleysWork EthicCollarsBlue CollarPeaks And Valleys Author:Bryan Cranston
“I'm doing a lot of boogie-boarding now. It's actually better exercise, I get a lot more waves, and if I'm out in big surf, I can duck under the waves much easier.” IfsI CanBigsEasierExerciseWaveDucksSurfBoogie Author:Robert Englund
“The kind of organic wave, the way that waves move, and I'm not just talking about feminism, the way that a social movement might rise like a wave. It's harder to build any kind of wave now. Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That's the only thing that keeps me from believing that there's going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.” WayBelieveKindHas BeensImportantBigsMightMovingSocialTalkingFeminismMovementHappeningsHarderWaveSocial MovementsAmericana Author:Dar Williams
“I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me. It's something I haven't practiced as diligently as my visual art. I've been doing visual art because I think it's easier for me to construct, whereas words are very difficult.” ThinkingWayWritingArtInspirationDifficultHavensEasierArt IsWaveVisualsConstructsVisual Art Author:Chath Piersath
“Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You feel this way?! Me too!" Hanging out is consciousness-raising.” WayFeelsBigsTogetherHouseSoundPartyConsciousnessGroupsFeminismWaveHanging OutHouse Party Author:Ani DiFranco
“[Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All they do is reassure people of their basic opinions, and then they can continue to act like they've always acted. I'd say it's time to move on to something else, but I don't know what it would be.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindBookWould BeMovingReadingOpinionAdvicePositive ThinkingWaveConservativeCommentatorsPower Of Positive ThinkingTime To Move On Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I'm not going to be able to wave a magic wand and change everybody's thoughts. That's something that can only happen by people working on themselves and being held to account by the rest of us, but what Donald Trump's done really unleashed a lot of darkness and divisiveness.” PeopleDoneHappensAbleDarknessMagicTrumpAccountsWaveWandsUnleashedMagic WandsDivisiveness Author:Hillary Clinton
“The one thing I know for a fact - some days are bad, some days are okay, and I'll go with it. If it's bad, I stay in and ride the wave and somehow, God gets me through and I'm fine. Dealing with grief doesn't work from one person to the other, it's so personal.” IfsKnowsPersonsFactsGriefOne ThingFineOkayWave Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“Before I actually got a hard surfboard at the age of 10, like a real board, I was always just trying to stand up on boogie boards or rafts or whatever I had, trying to emulate the people that I saw surfing the waves out there.” PeopleTryingRealHardAgeSawsWaveBoardsSurfingEmulateBoogie Author:Donavon Frankenreiter
“In an odd way, Donald Trump and maybe Brexit is gonna be great for inspiring a new wave of socially conscious political music.” WayPoliticalTrumpConsciousWaveOdd Author:Moby
“The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.” ExampleDepthWaveHeatFrequencyHurricanesHeat Wave Author:Bill McKibben
“The problem that we have in America now is, some people only see the positive stuff and wave off the toxic stuff, and some people only see the toxic stuff and wave off the positive stuff. You can't have an honest conversation.” PeopleProblemAmericaStuffHonestConversationWaveToxic Author:Van Jones
“At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.” PeopleThinkingMindWantedTurnsBreakDoorsIndustryAmbitionWaveInvitedBreaking DownTurn-onMy AmbitionTuition Author:Pam Grier
“It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we're still soaked in it.” StillsCountryFeltWaveOur CountryBiasTidal Waves Author:Paula Broadwell
“Every wave of immigrants who came [to America] were treated pretty badly, but when they all finally became integrated, all of us became Anglo-Saxons.” AmericaWaveTreatedImmigrantsIntegratedAnglo Saxon Author:Noam Chomsky
“Finally Irish were accepted into society and became part of the political system, and there were Kennedys, and so on. But the same is true about other waves of immigrants, like the Jews in the 1950s.” PoliticalWaveJewAcceptedImmigrantsPolitical Systems Author:Noam Chomsky
“Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.” AsksSpeakPhotographWaveAsk MeAutographsNotice Me Author:Quentin Crisp
“There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.” WorldFeelingsGovernmentPoliticalMovementHugeAmountRight NowWaveEnormousEstablishmentPolitical Movements Author:Tony Blair
“Tom [Hentoff] - it started when he was the editor of the paper at Wesleyan and the - members of the staff. This was the first wave of political correctness. The editors of the staff members came and said he must - he must, from now on, stop using `freshmen' and - in-as part of the policy of the paper. It had to be `freshperson.' Therefore, you don't - you're not discriminating against males or females. They were very fervent about that, and he was equally fervent about not politicizing language. So until he left, `freshmen' stayed.” FirstsSaidPoliticalLeftLanguagePolicyMembersPaperFemaleMalesWaveEditorsTomsStaffPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessFreshmanFerventStaff Members Author:Nat Hentoff
“I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.” Life IsWishMagicWaveHeyWandsMagic Wands Author:Desmond Tutu
“If you are a true fan, you're a fan for one of two reasons. You either support what I do or you support me as a person. If you support what I do, the quality of work speaks for itself. If you support me as a person, my personal and political views won't alienate you. If you find a way to be turned off, that means you were never a fan in the first place. You were just riding the wave.” IfsWayFirstsMeanPersonsTwoReasonPoliticalSpeakViewsQualitySupportFansWaveRidingSupport MePolitical ViewTurned OffQuality WorkRiding The Wave Author:T.I.
“The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite clear that [Vladimir] Putin doesn't want to relinquish the levers of power.” WantClearCalmWavePutinLeversPainless Author:Garry Kasparov
“If you ask why start-ups outperform established enterprises when it comes to catching the next wave, the answer is that they are not conflicted. Everyone is rowing in the same direction. That is never the case in a company that has a portfolio of businesses at different stages in their maturity. So the key to winning there has to be to "zone out" the conflicts - sort of like sending quarrelling children each to their own room.” IfsChildrenDifferentNextAsksWinningAnswersRoomsCompanyCasesStageKeysConflictWaveMaturityEnterpriseZoneCatchingRowingPortfolios Author:Geoffrey Moore
“If the quality of professional materials continues to erode or even dries up, then many of us silver photographers would have to follow the digital tidal wave. It certainly wouldn't be the end of the world, but in my opinion, having no silver material available would be a huge loss to photography.” IfsWorldEndsWould BeLossQualityOpinionMaterialsHugePhotographyPhotographerWaveAvailableDigitalSilverEnd Of The WorldErodeTidal Waves Author:Michael Kenna
“The idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, as opposed to an economic presence, is going to create a new wave of hostility toward the United States.” IdeasStatesUnitedUnited StatesEconomicMilitaryWavePermanentAfghanistanHostilityMilitary Presence Author:Ahmed Rashid
“Now it's time for India to steer ourselves, ride the waves and decide on our direction, destination and speed.” IndiaWaveSpeedDestinationSteers Author:Narendra Modi
“I think the wave of social media rejection is coming. I think there will be a big reaction against it. It's just like sugar- - mean, I loved it as a kid.” ThinkingMeanBigsKidsSocialMediaWaveSocial MediaReactionsRejectionSugar Author:George Saunders
“The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss.” IfsOceanDepthCalmWaveSurfaceBliss Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“The Democratic lawmakers are still trying to figure out how to capitalize on this new wave of leftist anger, if you want to call it that.” IfsWantTryingStillsFiguresDemocraticWaveLeftistsLawmakers Author:Chuck Todd
“Surfing is sensual. It's a real-time engagement with the forces of nature, which happen to be echoes of the past (which after all, is all a wave really is). Briefly we defy gravity and ride the energy of storms from elsewhere. We are intensely alone as we do it and yet completely swallowed by something larger that enforces a sense of perspective and connectedness to the natural world. It's an experience we yearn to repeat so we go searching for it again and again and we spend years sitting in the water waiting for these radiating lines to come in across the event horizon.” WorldYearsRealHappensPastEnergyForceWaitingWaterNaturalLinesEventsPerspectiveSittingWaveStormSensualRepeatsHorizonEngagementGravityElsewhereAgain And AgainEchoesSurfingNatural WorldConnectednessForces Of NatureEvent Horizon Author:Tim Winton
“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.” PeopleThinkingKindNightForceAdviceLike YouWaveSavedSleepless Nights Author:Lena Dunham
“One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century in France, "the Golden Age of Women." The next wave in the 20th century comes from Sweden, one of the first countries where women voted. Then Germany, again, at the forefront of progress. Then America in the '80s, when women were closing the pay gap. And Japan, same thing.” FirstsCountryHardAgeAmericaNextPayProgressCenturyLateWaveCoreGoldenInstanceFranceLiberationGermanyJapanParadoxGaps20th Century80sPornographyClosingSwedenGolden Age18th CenturyHard CorePay Gap Author:Stephen Marche
“Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream.” Has BeensDreamAbleWaveImmigrantsAmerican DreamIntegratingGreat American Author:Barack Obama
“You see a wave of populism in the world. There is something wrong. This maybe because of technology.” WorldTechnologyWavePopulism Author:Ken Moelis
“The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement really flooded our schools. Schools, caught up in this maelstrom, began viewing children as criminals or suspects, rather than as young people with an enormous amount of potential struggling in their own ways and their own difficult context to make it and hopefully thrive. We began viewing the youth in schools as potential violators rather than as children needing our guidance.” PeopleWayChildrenWarStatesSchoolYoungDifficultUnitedUnited StatesStruggleMovementYouthAmountDrugToughWaveCaughtCriminalsEnormousHopefullyGuidanceThriveSuspectsCaught UpWar On DrugsMaelstrom Author:Michelle Alexander
“Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.” WayHandsCertainGirlCoursesGrowing UpGrowingEnglandWavePrincessRoyal Author:Julie Andrews
“Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.” RocksWaveExposedPunkPunk Rock Author:George Thorogood
“I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.” MeanSaidHappenedHeardWaveTomsPetty Author:George Thorogood
“LSD was my "wonder child", we had a positive reaction from everywhere in the world. Around two thousand publications about it appeared in scientific journals and everything was fine. Then, at the beginning of the 1960s, here in the United States, LSD became a drug of abuse. In a short time, this wave of popular use swept the country and it became "drug number one". It was then used without caution and people were not prepared and informed about its deep effects. Instead of a "wonder child", LSD suddenly became my "problem child".” PeopleWorldChildrenTwoCountryStatesUseProblemUsedUnitedNumbersWonderUnited StatesEffectsFineDrugThousandAbusePreparedWaveReactionsJournalCaution1960sPublicationShort TimeLsdProblem Child Author:Albert Hofmann
“To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other, and they're all slightly different. I don't know if originality is possible. Is it even necessary? Because everything is different than what came before, but it's all branches from the same tree. Originality is overrated, but what you do with things is always different.” IfsKnowsDifferentTurnsTreeOceanWaveEndlessBranchesOriginalityVariationOverrated Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I keep wanting people to realize that there needs to be a tidal wave of peace and love. People should be treated with love and respect regardless of the color of their skin or their sexual preference. We need to keep saying that as much as we can and as loud as we can.” PeopleNeedsShouldRealizingColorSkinsAnd LoveWaveTreatedLoudPreferencePeace And LoveLove And RespectTidal Waves Author:Jim James
“I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsBelieveI CanHelpingFeelingsVisionWalkingBlindSmileWaveBlurry Author:Nicole Kidman
“I'm really interested in experimental works, so the people that I admired the most was Dziga Vertov, Sergey Eisenstein, people from the '20s. Also, I loved John Ford and his westerns. The New Wave was not tender to women.” PeopleWave Author:Babette Mangolte