Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a passive chip. It emits no signal whatsoever. It's the same thing as a keycard.

Sarah Vaughan

It puts us in a passive place sometimes, but it can also put (women) in a powerful place.

I wanted people to be more than just passive consumers. I wanted them to be part of it.

Television viewing has been, for the most part, a passive activity.

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.

Phil Jackson

We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter.

Rush Limbaugh

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

Rush Limbaugh

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.

Sonia Sotomayor

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

John Pilger

Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

Herman Melville

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

Jim Caviezel

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

I thought they turned up the pressure defensively in the second half, and we were too passive with the ball. But that's what you get when you are as young as we are.

Mahatma Gandhi

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

Brian Posehn

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.

William Safire

Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.