Marshall McLuhan Quotes

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Marshall McLuhan

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• With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Influence
  • Will

• I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • American
  • You
  • Stand

• The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Science

• Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Great
  • God
  • May

• The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Context

• I was impressionable at that age, and my high school coach did such an unbelievable job helping me, so I want to do that for other kids.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • Job
  • Kids

• You know I'm weak on good looks.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Good
  • You
  • Know

• A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Beautiful
  • Car
  • Green

• I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Day
  • Gym
  • Three

• I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Good
  • Remember

• Every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical processes, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed, and the manipulation thereafter is repetitive in nature and hence a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Nature

• It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Giving
  • Unknown

• Good night, and good luck.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Good
  • Night
  • Luck

• He was... a womanizer, he wanted to be in the sack with everybody.

  

  Lauren Bacall

• Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

  

  Alvin Toffler
  • Future

• We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Society
  • Sex

• Capital was always the struggle. I always had these amazing visions. Had this amazing work ethic. Had this amazing work partner in my wife. But I was always struggling for capital. I owe a lot to local banks who were willing to take chances on Jo and I early in our career.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Work
  • Career
  • Amazing

• I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one.

  

  Miranda July
  • People
  • Next
  • Sitting

• The tear rose in Miss Marple's eyes. Succeeding pity, there came anger - anger against a heartless killer. And then, displacing both these emotions, there came a surge of triumph - the triumph some specialist might feel who has successfully reconstructed an extinct animal from a fragment of jawbone and a couple of teeth.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Eyes
  • Couple
  • Animal

• I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • People
  • Work

• When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other.

  

  Shekhar Kapur
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Harmony

• Thinking is movement confined to the brain.

  

  Arvid Carlsson
  • Thinking
  • Brain
  • Movement

• The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

  

  Marshall McLuhan