Concealing Quote by Ian Holm Download Open image “Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.” — Ian Holm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concealing Passive Sentences Testicles Way
“Even if, at the moment, you can't sit down and do the gruntwork of stringing verbs and nouns together, you are writing. It is… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It means to… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Punctuation! We knew it was holy. Every sentence we cherished was sturdy and Biblical in its form, carved somehow by hand-dragged implement or slapped… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's… — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like… — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair. — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're… — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
It's not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small. — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can… — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there. — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact.… — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age… — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in 'Lost in Translation,' and then, seemingly within a couple of weeks, she became completely Hollywoodised. I was shocked. I… — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing… — Lewis Nkosi Copy Share Image
Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea – encourages inflexibility,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
