Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

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• A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Today
  • Young
  • Trends

• Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Courage

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Home
  • Today
  • Win

• You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Worth

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Innovation

• Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • War
  • Picture
  • Civil War

• What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Very
  • Most

• Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.

  

  Larry Page
  • Time
  • High
  • Today

• When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Today
  • College
  • Brother

• We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Believe
  • Live
  • True

• We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • America
  • Today
  • Lawyers

• Kleenex would have made a mint today.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Today
  • Made
  • Mint

• There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Today
  • Technology
  • Fire

• Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips and feel really bloated - that one happens a lot to me.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Women
  • Today
  • House

• Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Work
  • Great
  • May

• I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Support

• In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • World
  • Evil

• The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

  

  Arthur Bloch

• My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure that I knew my role as a young lady and as someone with moral structures and principles. She taught me that if I was going to be involved with anything, whether it be spirituality, music, or some skill, that I have to practice.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • She
  • Mother

• Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Today