William Falconer Quotes

People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time.

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.

Every wave is new until it breaks.

It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big, as the swell from deep water hits the shallow reef ledge. A ten-foot high wave and a 30-footer break in the same depth of water.

I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.

If the wave is getting bigger, it causes the time to grow a little bit. If the wave is trying to contract, it reduces it a little bit. So, you can see this oscillation in time on the clock.

The waves from all the different parts of a sphere would cancel each other out. You need motion that's nonspherical.

It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.

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.

Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.

Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms—rarely if ever in simple straight lines.

Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.

Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.

What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.

Sighing restlessly, the boundless sea broke huge rollers into white cream which hissed hungrily up to the tideline.