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)
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)