Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The Age of Writing has passed. We must invent a new metaphor, restructure our thoughts and feelings. (p. 14)Marshall McLuhan
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
Rafael dos Anjos -
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?
Park Shin-hye -
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.
V. S. Naipaul -
The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
Natalia Kills -
I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
Verne Troyer -
When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
Valerie Plame
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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.
Zach Braff -
Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
Fisher Stevens -
I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
Wayne Newton -
The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
Iggy Pop -
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
Sam Mendes -
Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
Natalie Massenet
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Edmund Waller -
I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
K. D. Lang -
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.
Naeem Khan -
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.
Adam Driver -
People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
Dan Pink -
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple
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Although our 'gentle air' cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to 'make a good impression' - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.
Arnold Schoenberg -
I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.
Kristan Higgins -
I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.
Elvis Costello -
The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.
Keith Haring -
The Age of Writing has passed. We must invent a new metaphor, restructure our thoughts and feelings. (p. 14)
Marshall McLuhan