Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Sonia Sotomayor

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

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.

Denise Levertov

Images split the truth in fractions.

Deepika Padukone

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

David Allen

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

Edwin Land

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

Boy George

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

Charles Bukowski

it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tied to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.

Alice Cary

The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.

Rachel Caine

And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go off and get yourself killed like a Dumbass. First rule in horror movies, Clair-Never split up!

Phil Niekro

I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

Denver Haslam

Negative things aren't negative unless you succumb to them.

Doug Flynn

We had back-to-back negative years in the market, and this mimics the market. It's very discouraging for people.

Koichi Ogawa

Fundamentally, there's nothing negative you can point to with Toyota.

Paul Maurice

The only negative was that we didn't score on the power play.

Abdul Kalam

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Chuck Hill

We still are going to suffer. We are well on our way to a record quarter in terms of negative preannouncements.

Robert Miller

We are in a negative situation relative to new apartments.

Thomas Kean

Unfortunately, races seem to get more negative every year,

Chris Bohjalian

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.