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)

    The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    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 (1890–1980)