Quotes About Active Voice

#1. All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author, There is no authoritative active voice. There are only multiple readings.

David Bowie

#2. 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

#3. Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that's what makes neurosurgery different.

Sam Kean

#4. The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

Rupert Sheldrake

#5. Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.

William DeWitt Hyde

#6. Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.

Emily Levine

#7. The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.

Agnieszka Holland

#8. I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.

Ridley Scott

#9. I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.

Matthew Quick

#10. The single problem plaguing all students in all schools everywhere is the crisis of disconnection. Meaningful Student Involvement happens when the roles of students are actively re-aligned from being the passive recipients of schools to becoming active partners throughout the educational process.

Adam Fletcher

#11. Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.

Haruki Murakami

#12. Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

Suzanne Collins

#13. Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#14. Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#15. Hollywood is probably the most active centre of film-making in the world, but it's also a very difficult place in which to find your voice ... It was also a far more civilised industry in Ireland.

Lenny Abrahamson

#16. Britney Spears is a legend

Lily Allen

#17. If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Jonny Lang

#18. It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient input, then they may start to create hallucinatory sounds on their own. Although it is curious that they do not usually create noises or voices; they create music.

Oliver Sacks

#19. Once you can understand where the conversation is, who leads, the type of voices and the best place for you to add your voice, you can then start becoming a more active participant.

Mitch Joel

#20. I'm measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I think I'm on track and where I think I'm off track.

Barack Obama