Famous quotes containing the words passive and/or mode:
“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)
“A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)