“If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?”

—  Steven Wright

Last update Oct. 16, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?" by Steven Wright?
Steven Wright photo
Steven Wright 178
American actor and author 1955

Related quotes

Stanisław Jerzy Lec photo

“You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.”

Stanisław Jerzy Lec book Unkempt Thoughts

p, 125
Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

Fred Dibnah photo

“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

Unsourced

“For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.”

Carlos Castaneda book Journey to Ixtlan

Source: Journey to Ixtlan

Brian Andreas photo

“Songs to Herself:
She waved at all the people on the trains & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Variant: She waved at all the people on the train & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.
Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Norman Mailer photo

“There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

Armies of the Night (1968)

Jonathan Stroud photo

“It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Screaming Staircase

Source: The Screaming Staircase

Homér photo

“A small rock holds back a great wave.”

Homér Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Jon Kabat-Zinn photo

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Variant: You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are

“If you want to know everything about the market, go to the beach. Push and pull your hands with the waves. Some are bigger waves, some are smaller. But if you try to push the wave out when it's coming in, it'll never happen. The market is always right.”

Ed Seykota (1946) American commodities trader

Source: Harris, Sunny J. Trading 102: Getting Down to Business, Wiley; 1 edition (September 1998), ISBN 0471181331 Read it here http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN0471181331&id=lvq0DElVjRIC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=seykota&sig=SvwZDgQxbP1_aH9Pi06-xucp4P0

Related topics