“Don't make waves, move smoothly without disturbing things.”

“You can’t part the waters without making some waves.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

“It's a funny thing this celebrity. If you don't wave back you're a miserable bugger, if you do wave back you're a big-headed bugger. I don't know.”

Fred Dibnah (1938–2004) English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering

“I move in the university of the waves.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“I could not make a move without making love.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

“Without moving anything / I want to see / the way this autumn / makes the birds move.”

Mirkka Rekola (1931–2014) Finnish writer

“Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed.”

Albert A. Michelson (1852–1931) American physicist

“He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase,

Or power of the wave, or deepened speech,
Or a leaner being, moving in on him,
Of greater aptitude and apprehension,

As if the waves at last were never broken,
As if the language suddenly, with ease,
Said things it had laboriously spoken.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

“Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.”

Vernor Vinge book A Deepness in the Sky