Top 269 Waving Quotes & Sayings

In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.

Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.

I love a bit of flag-waving.

Waving the banner of my coaches is a heavy flag to wield, so it's something I take very serious.

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

Alice tried another question. "What sort of people live about here?" "In THAT direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: And in THAT direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad." "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

?'The demon cried, waving its furry arms above his head like a demented orangutan.

I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting?

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him, 'He can't see you.'

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.

The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.

Trump's creating laws for crimes that don't exist. In Canada, we have Prime Minister Trudeau in the gay Pride parade waving a flag.

You can't prove you're an American by waving Old Glory.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive, and therefore bizarre.

High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't, simply, many other places where you can sing your national anthem until you lose your voice without causing a riot. In the context of soccer, flag-waving nationalism - even chauvinistic, anti-foreigner, flag-waving nationalism - is acceptable in Britain.

If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there’s one thing we authors are good at, it’s hand-waving.

Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

Supporting Celtic, waving a tricolour because your parents are Irish - that's a valid culture.

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him 'he can't see you'.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.

I won't just give up anything to anybody because they're waving a gun around.

We intend to follow one strategy: that is to reach out to each and every resident in the constituency. We do not believe in just waving to the people from cars.

When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.

Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.

Let's face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they're waving is something Bad Religion has stood against.

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

I've been in some small parades where they have turned down some side street and a few people are sitting on the curb with a ham sandwich and a beer. Waving to them is like walking into a living room and waving.

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.

People turn up at my shows with black hearts on their knuckles, waving their hands in the air like flags.

If there's a Filipino flag waving, will.i.am whispers to me, 'Filipinos are over there!' And then I wave towards that direction.

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one.

Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here.

A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.

Waving to the Queen after singing Amazing Grace at Buckingham Palace, that was pretty cool.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving

A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner. "Mom,guess what ?" she squealed waving the drawing . her mother never looked up. "what"? she said ,tending to the pots. "guess what?" the child repeated ,waving the drawings. "what?" the mother said , tending to the plates. "Mom, you're not listening" "sweetie,yes I am" "Mom" the child said "you're not listening with your EYES

Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

I spent so many years in MMA waving the banner for pro wrestling, telling fighters they had to be more entertaining.