Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

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• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Human
  • Better

• I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
  • Good
  • America

• I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Witty

• I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Happen

• Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Sometimes

• I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Time
  • States
  • Over

• The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • Want
  • Best

• Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Doubt

• Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • Real
  • Mind

• There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Time
  • Black

• It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Time
  • World
  • Change

• From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• I don't do very much for beauty. I use very simple things on my skin. I haven't got time. I would always get facials and then come home laden with product, and pay a lot of money and never use it. Anyway, one day a dermatologist told me to use Cetaphil to clean my face and as a moisturizer, and that's what I do.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Start

• I still feel like five years old every time I step on the court. It's my sanctuary...I want to maintain the fun at all times.

  

  Kane Waselenchuk
  • Time
  • Fun

• I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Media

• There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • People
  • Good
  • Fear

• There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.

  

  Graham Nash
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Time
  • Identity