Passive Cable Theory

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

“We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say, “I lost it.””
—Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)

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

“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.”
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834)