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)

    “Thus the theory of description matters most.
    It is the theory of the word for those
    For whom the word is the making of the world,
    The buzzing world and lisping firmament.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)