Top 100 Quotes About Watt
#1. Anti-narrative sequences of a man (Watt) sitting in a dark bedroom drinking bourbon while his wife (Heath) and an Amway representative (Johnson) have acrobatic coitus in the background's lit hallway.
David Foster Wallace
#2. I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.
Sylvia Plath
#3. Online magazines such as Salon, Slate, and Suck, had already made an elementary discovery: a reader staring into the equivalent of a thirty-watt bulb didn't want to confront thousands of words. The medium required a little extra white space, a sort of oasis for the optic nerve.
James Marcus
#4. I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
David Antin
#6. Met with Jim Watt. He's taking a lot of abuse from environmental extremists but he's absolutely right. People are ecology too and they cant forage for food and live in caves.
Ronald Reagan
#7. We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
Bill Bryson
#8. A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.
Shelley Berman
#9. See, that's a coffee drinker's problem,' Marina said. 'Meanwhile, I'm perfectly fine with tea bags.'
'I love that there's such a rivalry,' said Charlie. 'It's like, leaf watt versus bean water, you know?
Robyn Schneider
#10. When have you ever seen a one on one match up on this platform? Andrew Luck on offense ... going against J.J. Watt
Bill Cowher
#11. Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.
Samuel Beckett
#12. True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier - when it's spelled with a lower case letter.
Richard Hamming
#13. What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.
Woody Allen
#14. To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.
Edward Walker
#15. A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.
William Powell
#16. As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.
M. Ward
#17. We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.
Ogden Nash
#18. Kiss me, babe."'
"No, really." Beneath the light of a sixty-watt bulb on her porch, Adele Harris placed a hand on the chest of her latest date. "I've had enough excitement for one night.
Rachel Gibson
#19. J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.
Hannah Storm
#20. According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.
Brendan I. Koerner
#21. If the AG had been a lightbulb instead of a lawyer, he would have been about a twenty-watt.
John Sandford
#22. O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm!
Ogden Nash
#23. This was indeed a merciful coincidence, was it not, that at the moment of Watt's losing sight of the ground floor, he lost interest in it also.
Samuel Beckett
#24. The person my heartache would spit out wouldn't be Ellie Watt and she wouldn't be Eden White. I didn't know her name, but I knew she wouldn't possess a heart.
I was fucking scared of her.
Karina Halle
#25. For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Rontgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new ...
Alexander Fleming
#26. Dex winks. JJ Watt does it, so I do it too. No way am I going to be caught with my dick in the wind facing one of those defensive linemen coming at me like a tank.
Kristen Callihan
#27. J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.
Bill Cowher
#28. I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
Nathan Fillion
#29. An unpopular apres-garde filmmaker (Watt) either suffers a temporal lobe seizure and becomes mute or else is the victim of everyone else's delusion that his (Watt's) temporal lobe seizure has left him mute.
David Foster Wallace
#30. There were photos of steel grappling hooks in the meat shed where the Watt Lake Killer had hung, gutted, flayed, and bled out his victims like slaughtered deer. Photos
Loreth Anne White
#31. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. My male friends don't seem to have any feelings of intimidation that I am a 100-watt sex bomb standing next to them.
Kim Cattrall
#33. James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.
Jeremy Rifkin
#34. It is by the nadir that we come, said Watt, and it is by the nadir that we go, whatever that means. And the artist must have felt something of this kind too, for the circle did not turn, as circles will, but sailed steadfast in its white skies, with its patient breach for ever below.
Samuel Beckett
#36. Conor, haven't you ever seen a firefly before?"
"Not like that. That's a flyine sixty-watt lightbulb.
John Lenahan
#37. He spoke of his lifelong crusade on behalf of fifty-watt lightbulbs. ("Sixty's too bright," he said, "and forty is too dim.
Jonathan Franzen
#38. I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.
Dan Fouts
#39. Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.
Erwin Blumenfeld
#40. James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.
Humphry Davy
#41. Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges ... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
Thomas Carlyle
#42. I've waited my whole life to sleep with you, Ellie Watt. I can't just pick you up from Safeway.
Karina Halle
#43. I mean, she was just cool, you know? And she didn't even mean to be. She was just a hundred-watt lightbulb in a world of forty-watt bulbs. She shone.
Nick Lake
#44. I love you," he whispered. "I was never meant to love anyone else. No matter what. Ellie Watt, you own me. And I'll keep you safe.
Karina Halle
#45. And Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.
Samuel Beckett
#46. I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's plan have not been invited to the discussion.
Mel Watt
#47. Do you really think it's Abby who's keeping me up at night?"
"I don't know." I hesitate. "I don't want it to be.
Erin Watt
#48. If we're genuinely interested in a book we can even bring ourselves to be greatful when others draw our attention to things we've missed or misunderstood.
Ian Watt
#49. Nice to meet you," Durand says in a ridiculously deep voice. Jeez, he sounds like Batman. "I'm
Erin Watt
#50. When I look at Reed and his muscular frame and his hard face, sometimes I forget that he's got a heart that's as fragile as mine. But guys aren't supposed to be emotional so they hide their feelings behind seriousness, crudeness, or dickish behavior.
Erin Watt
#51. I wanna try and stay a student for life.
Mike Watt
#52. Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel at the three pillars of society: the family unit, work ethic and faith. That's not good for America.
James G. Watt
#53. Look, I like you. Didn't think I would but I do, and because I like you, I feel the need to warn you that we Royals are pretty fucked up. We're good in bed, but out of it? We're like a stage four hurricane.
Erin Watt
#54. North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.
Mel Watt
#55. My skill, if I have one, isn't dancing. It's my ability to believe that tomorrow can be a better day.
Erin Watt
#56. You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.
Mike Watt
#57. Fate is for the weak--those people who don't have enough power or will to shape life into what they need it to be.
Erin Watt
#58. And don't tell me that you were sick because no one is sick for two weeks and can't even make a phone call! Well, unless she's patient zero at the beginning of a zombie apocalypse.
Erin Watt
#59. Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there.
J. J. Watt
#60. For, ultimately, isn't all laughter only the echo of an original revolt against the almighty: a never-ending scream against the absurdity of our exile from him?
D.P. Watt
#61. I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
Watt Key
#62. Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.
Robert Watson-Watt
#63. Take your condescension, your unwanted advice, your creepy lurking outside of my door and shove it up your ass.
Erin Watt
#64. I have a little name. That's why people can remember it.
Mike Watt
#65. Success isn't owned - it's leased. And rent is due every day. Every single day, someone's coming for your job. Someone's coming for your greatness. If you're the greatest, someone wants to be the greatest, and so if you're not constantly improving your game, somebody else is.
J. J. Watt
#66. but a clean knife still makes a painful wound.
Erin Watt
#67. You're a bad person, Ellie," he said without a trace of irony.
"I'm not bad. The world is bad and I'm just trying to survive in it.
Karina Halle
#68. You may have lost your family, but you're not alone anymore, Ella. You're a Royal now.
Erin Watt
#69. But I do care. I hate myself for it, but I can't fight this desperate need to try. Try to fit in. Try to make this school experience different than all the previous ones.
Erin Watt
#71. I hate feeling like I don't belong.
Erin Watt
#72. Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.
James G. Watt
#73. I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.
J. J. Watt
#74. I can't ever lose what I just felt." He kissed my cheek. "I'm afraid if I did, I'd come looking for you too. I'm afraid I can relate ... to him.
Karina Halle
#75. I'm confused right now." I rub my sweaty palms on my knees.
Oak drags his index finger along my lower lip. "I know, baby. And scared?" I give a small nod. "I'm scared too. But let's work this out together. Let's see where it goes. We don't need labels or words. We just need to be together.
Erin Watt
#76. For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
#77. I've spend the last couple of years trying to destroy everything around me. Who knew success would taste so bitter.
Erin Watt
#78. Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.
Alan Watt
#79. Reed Royal has broken me. I've fallen from the sky and I'm not sure I can get up. Not this time.
Erin Watt
#80. I tug his head down to mine. "I need you, Reed. Don't make me beg."
And just like that, he gives in. One hand comes up to tangle in my hair while the other pulls me roughly against him. "You don't ever have to ask again. I'll give you anything you want.
Erin Watt
#81. I wrap my arms around her shoulders. She snuggles into my side and I swear, my damn heart flips over because I want her to be my girl. For real.
Erin Watt
#82. I definitely care about what I look like, certainly when I am going out in public, doing an appearance or something, but when I'm home, I'm all sweatpants, all the time.
J. J. Watt
#83. Reed hasn't issued the Royal decree yet.
Erin Watt
#85. It's you. It's always been you and I'm tired of fighting it.
Erin Watt
#86. There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.
Alan Watt
#87. In the 1980s ... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious.
James G. Watt
#88. After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.
James G. Watt
#89. Then he launches himself at me with a roar, and I let him take his shot. It's weak, like he is. Like all bullies really are. That's why they're bullies. Because they're insecure idiots who try to make themselves feel better.
Erin Watt
#90. Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.
Alan Watt
#91. Is there a real life block button? Because I need that in my life.
Erin Watt
#92. I don't give a score prediction, but I am a defensive guy, so I'll definitely be looking forward to a defensive game.
J. J. Watt
#93. Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.
Watt Key
#94. Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.
Mike Watt
#95. She's mine and always has been. From before we even met, she was mine and I was hers. I fought it too long, but I'm giving in now. I'm all in now.
Erin Watt
#96. My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.
James G. Watt
#97. I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.
Jim Watt
#98. You should know whatever game you're playing, you can't win. Not against all of us. If you leave now, you won't be hurt. If you stay, we'll break you so bad that you'll be crawling away."
- Reed Royal
Erin Watt
#99. Steve. That always felt made-up to me. Like, when your kid says, "Tell me about my daddy, Mama!" and you're on the spot so you blurt out the first name that comes to mind - "Uh, his name was, um, Steve, honey.
Erin Watt
#100. You're too much, Easton." "I am." He nods solemnly. "It's why I sleep around. Because no one girl can handle all of me.
Erin Watt
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