Marshall McLuhan Quotes

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. (p. 125)

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• Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Fashion
  • Out
  • Polo

• What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Strong
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• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

  

  Abigail Adams
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  • Actions

• I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.

  

  Vikram Rohit Shetty
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Theatre

• Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Today
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• I was born with an evil face.

  

  Barry Sloane
  • Evil
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• I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Right

• As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Always
  • Writer
  • Productive

• My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Life
  • Children
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• I think a few pictures at a time.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Think
  • Pictures

• Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• I cannot speak In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad;But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek,Until made glad.I cannot feelThat all is well, when dark'ning clouds concealThe shining sun;But then I knowGod lives and loves; and say, since it is so, 'Thy will be done.'

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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• They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Men
  • Together
  • Guy

• From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

  

  Akio Morita
  • People
  • Important
  • Creativity

• I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • God
  • Baby

• People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • People
  • Gay
  • Paint

• Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Done
  • Christian
  • Sacrifice

• Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Know
  • Value

• The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.

  

  Judy Gold
  • Roles
  • Gender
  • Defined

• In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point. (p. 125)

  

  Marshall McLuhan