Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Rabelais offers a vision of the future of print culture as a consumer's paradise of applied knowledge. (p. 167)
Quotes to Explore
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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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.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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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 ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.
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I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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I'm really bad at taking compliments, but whenever I get them, I tell myself, 'Way to go, girl' and move on.
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Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.
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Rabelais offers a vision of the future of print culture as a consumer's paradise of applied knowledge. (p. 167)
