Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

Marshall McLuhan

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• There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Way
  • Natural
  • Order

• When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Alone
  • Sleep
  • I Can

• Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Coffee

• No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Lose

• Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Political
  • Violence
  • Advice

• I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Better

• When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Eat

• I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sleep
  • Easy
  • Plane

• I studied psychology and sociology. I think my assumption was that I would go to graduate school, and I don't know what I was going to do after that.

  

  K. Flay
  • School
  • Think
  • Know

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Past
  • Best

• I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Sleep

• I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Up
  • Home
  • Fear

• I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sleep
  • Awake

• I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • World
  • Death
  • Fear

• After a day in Cannes, I pass out before I even get to my bed. I'll get to my room, order room service, shower, and sleep.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Day
  • Sleep
  • Service

• I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Sleep

• The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Insomnia

• Whether I'm on or off the field, I know the importance of getting enough sleep and starting the day with a wholesome breakfast like oatmeal made with milk and fruit.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Sleep
  • Breakfast

• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Future

• If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • See
  • Youth

• In university, in a vain attempt to stave off the frosh fifteen, I used to melt fat-free cheese over broccoli, onions and cauliflower in the cafeteria microwave. That earned me few friends.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Friends
  • Free
  • Me

• The peace of mind, is very essential for our health. So in that level, I think scientific finding, immense benefit to get our wellness and eventually conviction, peace of mind is not just a luxurious item, but peace of mind is actually very important for our survival, for our healthy survival.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Mind

• Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Sleep
  • Assumption