“[responding to scattered audience applause] Ah, lovely: the ripple, the ripple there. That's nearly the Zen clap of acceptance there, wasn't it?”

“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.”

“Ripples on a pond cannot touch a bird hovering above it.”

“It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another.”

“In the hollow
Silver voices ripple and cry
Follow, O follow!”

“It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.”

“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away…”

“Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.”

“These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.”