Famous quotes containing the words continuous, power and/or dissipation:
“I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.”
—Aneurin Bevan (18971960)
“Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.”
—Roland Barthes (19151980)
“They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.”
—Katherine Anne Porter (18901980)