Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Man in the electronic age has no possible environment except the globe and no possible occupation except information-gathering.

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• Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Community
  • Environment
  • Growth

• Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • Now
  • Voting

• I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Age
  • Never
  • Certain

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Environment
  • Chaos

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Age
  • Focus
  • Gift

• I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

  

  T. J. Perkins
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  • Parents
  • Kind

• Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Age
  • Blessed
  • Acceptance

• Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Age
  • Success

• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Age
  • Study
  • Childhood

• Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Age
  • Respect
  • Hair

• Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Age
  • Myself
  • Athlete

• I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Age
  • Story
  • Homework

• My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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  • Time
  • Money

• Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Environment

• It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in German towns. Thus, for instance, one finds that in the year 1500, thirteen, in 1540, thirty-eight, and in 1708, already one hundred and twenty vegetable oils are mentioned.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Age
  • Year
  • German

• Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Age
  • Wisdom

• Just as black and white, when mixed, make grey, in many ways that's what it did to my self-identity: it created a murky area of who I was, a haze around how people connected with me. I was grey. And who wants to be this indifferent colour, devoid of depth and stuck in the middle? I certainly didn't.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • People
  • Black
  • Identity

• I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Up
  • Funeral

• Ah, yes, I wrote the 'Purple Cow'-I'm Sorry, now, I wrote it;But I can tell you AnyhowI'll Kill you if you Quote it!

  

  Gelett Burgess
  • Sorry
  • Purple

• Man in the electronic age has no possible environment except the globe and no possible occupation except information-gathering.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Age
  • Environment