Famous quotes containing the words passive, solar and/or building:
“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)
“Lincoln becomes the American solar myth, the chief butt of American credulity and sentimentality.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)