Wattage Quotes

#1. It meant a lot of driving through nothingness, and sometimes all that prickled the radio dial were low-wattage religious broadcasts: preachers who thought the aliens were Jesus coming home, or that they carried the wrath of God in their round ships' bellies.

Sean Platt

#2. Are you a dim bulb or high-wattage?

Neal Shusterman

#3. 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

#4. I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.

William Shakespeare

#5. I will be forever grateful to Dora Brooking, for not only spotting my light bulb but also helping me turn up the wattage.

Simon Pegg

#6. He parked in a nearby street and walked out on to the bridge. Below him the lights of London spread away in a wash of low wattage, Their dimness gave the lie to the very vastless of the city. Bull heard its distant roar, its night-time sough, its terminal cough

Will Self

#7. I could spend thousands now on the highest end hi-fi in the world and know that, for all the wattage and purity of signal, the music would never quite touch me again as it did then from that primitive monaural system. But nor could anything quite touch me now as it did then.

Stephen Fry

#8. When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been engaged in a low wattage war someplace.

Craig Davidson

#9. - That - to cut to a chase which the interviewers' hands-on-hip attitudes and replacement of the lamp's bulb with a much higher wattage signified they'd very much like to see cut to - as

David Foster Wallace

#10. God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.

F.B. Meyer

#11. What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.

Josemaria Escriva

#13. I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

Hayao Miyazaki

#14. Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

Gail Carson Levine

#15. It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa.

Will Smith