Marshall McLuhan Quotes

We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Faith
  • Belief

• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Really
  • Immortality
  • Guess

• I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Morning
  • Everyday
  • Shoes

• No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Love
  • Dress

• I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Myself
  • Imagination
  • Player

• My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Men
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Places

• Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Evil
  • Ignorance

• I am not in the business of suppressing books.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Business
  • Books
  • Suppressing

• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • More
  • Self
  • Execution

• Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Politics
  • Look
  • Ought

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • You
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • College
  • Mom

• Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Energy
  • Model

• My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Taken

• The Greens will threaten the future of our strong economy. They will destroy jobs and put Victorian families at risk.

  

  Denis Napthine
  • Future
  • Strong
  • Risk

• The present is a time of testing, we believe, to many of the Lord's people. Have we in the past been active merely because we hoped for our glorious change in A.D. 1914, or have we been active because of love and loyalty to the Lord and his message and the brethren!

  

  Charles Taze Russell
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Power
  • Future
  • Relationship

• I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Lost
  • Failure
  • Lose

• The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Nature
  • Past
  • Present

• We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Future
  • Present
  • Mirror