Continuous Power Dissipation

Famous quotes containing the words continuous, power and/or dissipation:

    “Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.”
    —Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

    “In night when colours all to black are cast,
    Distinction lost, or gone down with the light;
    The eye—a watch to inward senses placed,
    Not seeing, yet still having power of sight—
    Gives vain alarums to the inward sense”
    —Fulke Greville (1554–1628)

    “Life is hard, we say. An oyster’s life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ...”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (b. 1908)