Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The Age of Writing has passed. We must invent a new metaphor, restructure our thoughts and feelings. (p. 14)
Quotes to Explore
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
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I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.
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I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.
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I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
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The Age of Writing has passed. We must invent a new metaphor, restructure our thoughts and feelings. (p. 14)
