#wave

As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#air #back #comes #effect #face

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#continued #counteract #distant #drawing #enough

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#behold #christmas #everything #magic #magic wand

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