Passive Cable Theory

Famous quotes containing the words passive, cable and/or theory:

“To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)

“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)

“The theory seems to be that so long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s chillun, but that as soon as he has any luck he owes it to the Devil.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)