Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Manuscript culture is conversational if only because the writer and his audience are physically related by the form of publication as performance. (p. 96)
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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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.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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There is a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.
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It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
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Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is
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I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
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Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
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Manuscript culture is conversational if only because the writer and his audience are physically related by the form of publication as performance. (p. 96)
