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Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“"Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and the waves is rowling. Think on it when the stormy nights is so pitch dark," said the Captain, solemnly holding up his hook, "as you can't see your hand afore you, excepting when the wiwid lightning reweals the same; and when you drive, drive, drive through the storm and dark, as if you was a driving, head on, to the world without end."”

Ifs Thinking World Said Ends Hands Night Dark Wonder Sea Wind Elements Wave Storm Driving Lightning Almighty Captains Hook Sailor Roaring Stormy Through The Storm Stormy Nights

Book:The Works of Charles Dickens

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens

“It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without such endeavors and the evolution of associated instrumentation, initially of purely scientific interest, most of the investigations that lead to the basic equations of electromagnetism would have been missed. ... We would have been deprived of electromagnetic machinery as well as knowledge of electromagnetic waves.”

Source: The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs

“Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along.”

Waiting Natural Perfect Inspiring Emotion Wave Delay Surfer

Author:E. B. White

“When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.”

Kids Cities Wave Spokes Ukulele

Author:Kid Koala

“Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.”

“If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something should or should not be broadcast because of Washington or Main Street consequences, we have dishonored ourselves and we have lost the First Amendment by default.”

Ifs Should Firsts Might America Lost Streets Consequence Wave Telling The Truth Boss Amendments First Amendment Default Main Street

Author:Richard S. Salant

“It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.”

Sea Land Wind Wave Trials

Author:Lucretius

“If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.”

Ifs Knows Want Love Care Know How Wave Care For You Love And Care

Author:Kenneth Koch

“California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.”

“One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.”

May Light Science Wave Spread

Book:Treatise on Light

Source: Treatise on Light

“If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.”

Ifs Giving Courses Nature Birth Travel Stones Meetings Wave Strikes Spots Thrown Shore Strokes Ponds Recoil

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know something of the population of their saline empire, especially of those parts of it immediately in contact with their terrestrial domain, and the coasts of the Continent to which our United Kingdom appertains.”

Source: The Natural History of the European Seas...

“The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.”

Men Sea Creatures Bird Wings Wave Crowds Counting Nests Cabins Trifling

Book:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset [and] William Butler Yeats

Source: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset [and] William Butler Yeats

“Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from below. There was a sharp, unbearable smell of birds, of cod, of green decaying seaweed. Through the mist the huge ruddy sun loomed nearer and nearer. And in the sea, dark blood welled up to meet it - in bloated, rearing, huge white waves. Night. The mouth of the bay between two cliffs was like a window. A window shutting out curious eyes with a white shade-white woolly fog. And all that you could see was that behind it something red was happening. (The North)”

“If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.”

People Ifs Knows Ends Body Quality Morning Awareness Bird Wave Treasure Intense Mortals Our Time Shore Rolling Sunrise Termination

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.”

Said Courses Four Car Quiet Bird Doctors Wave Radio Radio Waves

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.”

Ideas Faces Used Window Rounds Wave Technique Cigarette Reflecting Lighting Lucy Interrogation Mascara Guantanamo Rear Window Interrogation Techniques

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our night sky. And just like the signals that we send and receive here on Earth, we can convert these transmissions into sound using simple analog techniques.”

Giving Earth Night Sound Simple Space Study Sky Information Objects Wave Radio Technique Sensitive Precise Signals Night Sky Transmission Astronomers Receiver Analog Antenna Radio Waves

Author:Honor Harger

“When they asked me, couldn't you give money out of the United Jewish Appeal funds for the rescue of Jews in Europe, I said, 'NO!' and I say again 'NO!' ... one should resist this wave which pushes the Zionist activities to secondary importance.”

Giving Should Said United Activity Europe Importance Wave Jew Appeals Fund Holocaust Rescue Zionist

Author:Yitzhak Gruenbaum

“We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.”

Soul Play Body Light Sound Walking Instruments Sacred Wave Cosmos Frequency Garments Dressed Up Bundles Light Waves

Author:Albert Einstein

“Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it really enjoyable to me is that every wave is different... there's a special, non-repetitive pleasure in it that never gets boring.”

Different Individual Ability Pleasure Special Expression Wave Boring Surfing Enjoyable Repetitive Individual Expression

Author:Otis Chandler

“After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.”

Wave Punk Ramones

Author:Eddie Vedder

“My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.”

Firsts Guy Culture Father Rocks Brother Wave Exposed Rock N Roll Popular Culture Older Brother Older Sister Cusp

Author:Paul Thomas Anderson

“At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.”

Has Beens Next Levels Keys Tools Wave Driving Application Next Level Computing Juncture

Author:Bill Gates

“I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.”

Want Kind Made Book Used Students Normal Wave Metals Hinges Faux Briefcases

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood - a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.”

“It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could go on to 4 by 4 matrices, and the problem is then easily soluable. In retrospect, it seems strange that one can be so much held up over such an elementary point. The resulting wave equation for the electron turned out to be very successful. It led to correct values for the spin and the magnetic moment. This was quite unexpected. The work all followed from a study of pretty mathematics, without any thought being given to these physical properties of the electron.”

Needs Moments Problem Seems Values Given Study Successful Week Strange Goes On Discovery Mathematics Property Wave Oneself I Realized Unexpected Equations Epiphany Retrospect Magnetic Electrons

Author:Paul Dirac

“If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.”

Ifs Running Fear Rivers Stronger Wave Brutality Greatest Fear Our Greatest Fear

Book:Ilustrado

Source: Ilustrado

“I have never seen a market unfold in other than an Elliott Wave pattern.”

Wave Patterns

Author:Robert Prechter

“Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.”

Lines Painting Wave Canvas Brushes Waves Breaking

Author:Mary Heilmann

“Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of a geometric order, and the transitory, changing forms of our actual world. The content of our experience results from an immaterial, abstract, geometric architecture which is composed of harmonic waves of energy, nodes of relationality, melodic forms springing forth from the eternal realm of geometric proportion.”

“One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.”

Mind Ideas States Reason Earth Brain Break Rivers Stones Constant Wave Abstract Cliffs Deposits Erosion Unknowing

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.”

Long Running Sides Sea Broken Wave Contrary Quarters Steady Uniforms Vessel Interrupted

Book:An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship

Source: An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship

“Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'”

Sometimes Moments Light Pain Voice Break Darkness Grace Wave Strikes Accepted That Moment

Author:Paul Tillich

“I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.”

Feels Years Heart Known Wonderful Mystery Ocean Depth Wave Height Unusual Life Experience

Book:The sieve of time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl

Source: The sieve of time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl

“This final sprint of Breaking Bad is like nothing I've ever seen. It's TV as a crescendo, as a magnet, as a wave. These episodes aren't ending so much as they're gasping for breath.”

Tvs Breaths Finals Wave Episodes Magnet Sprint Crescendo

Author:Andy Greenwald

“The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury against the rocky bulwarks of the coast; giant tides eat away the sand beaches and alter the entire contour of an island overnight; williwaw winds pour down the side of a volcano like snow sliding off a roof, building to a hundred-mile velocity in a matter of minutes and churning the ocean into a maelstrom where the stoutest vessels founder.”