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 know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!

  

  Vash Young
  • Long
  • Real
  • Together

• 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

• Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. It's fascinating to me that the correlation between the two is almost the same - people don't talk about it so much, but they are almost equal in numbers.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • People
  • Men
  • Health

• 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

• Freedom of expression doesn't mean tweeting through fake accounts. If the government has to be transparent, Twitterati should also reciprocate. This will help stop defamatory and criminal traffic on the Net. We should amend the law to force disclosure of identity.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Help
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Good night, and good luck.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Good
  • Night
  • Luck

• Who are you to judge the life I live? I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be, so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Life
  • Live
  • Perfect

• As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain: Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell anyone in a roadside diner that you went to Harvard. In most situations the correct response to where did you go to school is, "School? Why, I never had much in the way of book learnin' and such." Then, get in your BMW and get the hell out of there.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • School
  • Why
  • Book

• Every time I get on an airplane I have a routine. I cover the inside of my nostrils with anti-bacterial ointment. I'm popping Zicam like it's candy. And I drink, literally, from L.A. to New York, six bottles of water.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Time
  • Water
  • New

• The field is fantastic, great runners, so the best you can do is stay in control, pace yourself well, and then utilise it when you can do better.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Control
  • Best
  • Stay

• 'High (drive/fly ball) into (left/center/etc.) field, and deep. Back goes (fielder's name), a-way back, it's gone!' (Or '… to the warning track, to the fence/wall, gone!')

  

  Vin Scully
  • High
  • Deep
  • Wall

• If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Star
  • Planet
  • Spectrum

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

  

  Marshall McLuhan