Volts To Watts Quotes & Sayings

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. — Chauncey Depew

The world didn't have words to measure hate. There were tons, yards, years. Volts, knots, watts. Ronan could explain how fast his car was going. He could describe exactly how warm the day was. He could specifically convey his heart rate. But there was no way for him to tell anyone else exactly how much he hated Aglionby Academy.
Any unit of measurement would have to include both the volume and the weight of the hate. And it would also have to include a component of time. The days logged in class, wasted, useless, learning skills for a life he didn't want. No single word existed, probably, to contain the concept. All, perhaps. He had all the hate for Aglionby Academy.
Thief? Aglionby was the thief. Ronan's life was the dream, pillaged. — Maggie Stiefvater

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning. — Paul Theroux

The biographical interest of this now little-known essay lies in the fact that in it he expounded broadly a view of the organization and the discipline of the party identical with that which was later to become the hall-mark of Bolshevism, and which he himself then met with acute and venomous criticism.28 The — Isaac Deutscher

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are. — Myles Munroe

It's not what you eat that will kill you as much as what is eating you. — Orrin Woodward

I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent apartment in suburbs of Paris named Romainville. That time my parents were freshly married and it was extremely hard to find an apartment in Paris for a young married couple. To say they found a flat in a blocks of houses which was built after the second World War - and this is the place where I spent my childhood. — Richard Clayderman

all my ancestors were from the South and some even fought and died for the losing side. Perhaps that's why I was long resigned to my failure to publish. — Katherine Paterson

I never teach the same course twice. — Elie Wiesel