Wavelength Quotes

• Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

  Iris Murdoch

  People, Literature, Scream

  Iris Murdoch (2010). “The Message To The Planet”, p.536, Random House

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• A lot of men are very possessive and they want to control you. But as you grow older, you attract people who are on your wavelength and who understand who you are.

  Marisa Berenson

  Men, People, Want

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• We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

  Alfred Kastler

  Light, Transition, Atoms

  Alfred Kastler (1988). “Oeuvre scientifique: 1956-1983”

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• Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

  Johannes Stark

  Running, Numbers, Lines

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• For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.

  Max von Laue

  Long, Uncertain, Position

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• In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.

  Claude Nicollier

  Rays, Energy, Range

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• The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.

  Woody Hayes

  Player, Fire, Long

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• I taught myself to tune in to another persons wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

  Wolfman Jack

  Trying, Tunes, Taught

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• Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

  Derek Jarman

  Blue, Rose, Red

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• While I was sleeping, I had a beautiful dream that all the people of the world got together on the same wavelength and began helping each other.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Beautiful, Dream, Future

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• It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

  Carl Sagan

  Passion, Sunset, Science

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.154, Ballantine Books

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• Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures, become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humanity and reverence.

  William O. Douglas

  Meaningful, Men, Humanity

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• Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

  Jean Cocteau

  Silence, Secret, Way

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.

  Richard Hamming

  Science, Thinking, People

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• When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author. I feel as if the author and I are on the same wavelength mentally, that we have a lot in common with each other, and that we could have an interesting conversation, or even a friendship, if the circumstances permitted it. When the novel comes to an end, I feel a certain letdown, a loss of contact. It is natural to want to recapture that feeling by reading other works by the same author, or by corresponding with him/her directly.

  Neal Stephenson

  Reading, Communication, Loss

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• The word
  was born in the blood,
  grew in the dark body, beating,
  and took flight through the lips and the mouth.
  Farther away and nearer
  still, still it came
  from dead fathers and from wondering races,
  from lands which had turned to stone,
  lands weary of their poor tribes,
  for when grief took to the roads
  the people set out and arrived
  and married new land and water
  to grow their words again.
  And so this is the inheritance;
  this is the wavelength which connects us
  with dead men and the dawning
  of new beings not yet come to light.

  Pablo Neruda

  Father, Grief, Dark

  Pablo Neruda, Ilan Stavans, Robert Bly (2007). “I explain a few things: selected poems”, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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• Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.

  Albert Einstein

  Dark, Simple, Reality

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• 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.

  Vanna Bonta

  Realms, Behave, Particles

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

  Van Morrison

  Albums, Firsts, Starting

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was there. As a comedian, I'm always listening to the audience. And in movies, sometimes the only audience you have is the producer and the director. I like having someone else's opinion, especially if you're on the same wavelength.

  Steve Martin

  Men, Comedian, Listening

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.

  Stephen King

  Adults, Way, Deals

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.557, Anchor

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• I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Magic, Kind

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• People are receptive in the best way when they are together enjoying themselves in a club; with others who are on the same wavelength. Then the experience becomes a very creative and spiritual thing.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Spiritual, People, Creative

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

  Pico Iyer

  Lonely, Shy, Visitors

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• When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy. ... Clearly white pines and I are on the same wavelength. What I give back to the trees I cannot imagine. I hope they receive something, because trees are among my closest friends.

  Anne LaBastille

  White, Giving, Tree

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