Power Dissipation

Famous quotes containing the words power and/or dissipation:

“Have at last written another [play, i.e., Endgame].... Rather difficult and elliptic, mostly depending on the power of the text to claw, more inhuman than “Godot.””
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)