Passivity Quote by John Green Download Open image “Television is a passivity.” — John Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Passivity Television
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty. — Bill Bixby Copy Share Image
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people. — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. — David Frost Copy Share Image
“The fact is television doesn't simply reflect society's values. In important ways, it also legitimizes them. And more and more in recent decades it… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share Image
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Pursued by grace and supernatural power from God, I will passionately pursued my most cherished dreams.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is… — J. C. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
