Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Print created national uniformity and government centralism, but also individualism and opposition to government as such. (p. 267)
Quotes to Explore
-
Study first, play afterwards.
-
If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
-
The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.
-
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
-
At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
-
When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
-
I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
-
Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.
-
In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
-
People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom's spicy spaghetti.
-
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
-
I'm a fashion designer. I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.
-
It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.
-
I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.
-
Tread Lightly, she is nearUnder the snow,Speak gently, she can hearThe daisies grow.
-
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
-
Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.
-
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
-
I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.
-
I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.
-
You have to remember what a super PAC is: a bunch of wealthy donors who want to send a message traditionally other campaigns don't do. This is the problem with the dark money that's involved in politics right now.
-
I believe the Congress ù as a coequal branch of government ù must immediately and expeditiously review the use of this practice.
-
All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.
-
Print created national uniformity and government centralism, but also individualism and opposition to government as such. (p. 267)
