Swells Quotes

You probably want to avoid the water. When you've got those types of winds and tides and swells, I'd give caution a lot of thought. - John Lindsey

You had a little bit of a back swell with Hurricane Maria, then Nate sent more of a backswell. So basically you have a mixture of four different swells coming in and just making great waves for this area. - Bill Walker

Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault / The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. - Thomas Gray

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked. - Mark Twain

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts. - Max Muller

These results cast more cold water on the notion that if non-discretionary spending on energy swells, it must crimp discretionary spending. It hasn't. - Ken Mayland

These are the biggest swells we've had since 1968. This is one of those once-in-a-blue-moon kinds of things. - John Lindsey

There was a lot of debate whether these jetties should have been built. It might have been better if they'd gone further north. There's a rock reef here about 12 feet below the surface, so there's no way to ever get a real deep channel here. When you have swells of 6 or 8 feet, you don't have enough water for safe passage. A little farther north, there are no rock reefs and they'd probably have had a safer channel. - Reg Pullen