Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Applied knowledge in the Renaissance had to take the form of translation of the auditory into visual terms, of the plastic into retinal form. (p. 180)Marshall McLuhan
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
Paloma Elsesser -
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava -
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
Salmon Portland Chase -
While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
Lake Bell -
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.
Salva Kiir Mayardit
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
Cameron Bright -
I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
Usher -
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.
Zola Jesus -
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius of Antioch -
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
Gary Wolf -
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel Alexander
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
Karen Gillan -
I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.
Rachel Roy -
Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
Immanuel Kant -
Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.
R. C. Sproul
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In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types would always open the curtains and chase me away. Today I work with a photographer.
Arnulf Rainer -
My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
D. H. Lawrence -
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like 'charming' and 'clever' and 'pretty' are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.
Andy Warhol -
Today the biggest decisions I make aren't related to the heavyweight title. They are whether I visit McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, or Jack-in-the-Box.
George Foreman -
Applied knowledge in the Renaissance had to take the form of translation of the auditory into visual terms, of the plastic into retinal form. (p. 180)
Marshall McLuhan