Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Unlike previous environmental changes, the electric media constitutes a total and near-instanteous transformation of culture, values and attitudes.

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• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Me
  • Give
  • Chastity

• You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Father
  • Sweet

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Up
  • Job
  • Practice

• In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Future
  • Like
  • See

• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Him

• I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • God
  • Best

• Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Guy

• Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Work
  • Eye
  • Better

• That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Challenge
  • Without
  • Actress

• I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Up
  • You
  • Film

• Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Life
  • Science
  • Interesting

• With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Speaking

• As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

  

  Oliver North
  • Safety
  • Lives
  • Responsible

• That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Religion

• There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Why
  • Want
  • Play

• I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Good
  • Career
  • Practice

• I was a student of Stella Adler and then later Lee Strasberg, and they were into sensory work. At its best, acting is not about words - even when the words are important.

  

  Mark Margolis
  • Work
  • Important
  • Words

• The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Different
  • Lifetime
  • Average

• My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Culture

• Certainly in my youth there was lots of singing, lots of storytelling, and whenever we went to a party, you had to do a party piece, like sing songs, recite poems, or tell stories. That sort of narrative musical culture was my upbringing.

  

  Genevieve O'Reilly
  • Culture
  • Party
  • Singing

• Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• Unlike previous environmental changes, the electric media constitutes a total and near-instanteous transformation of culture, values and attitudes.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Culture
  • Transformation