Marshall McLuhan Quotes

The existential trauma had a physical basis in the first electric extension of our nervous system.

Marshall McLuhan

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• Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • You
  • Taste
  • Meat

• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Men
  • Quotation

• CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • You
  • Air

• When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Poems

• One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Energy

• One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • American
  • Always

• The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Relationship
  • Value
  • Person

• I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Know
  • Dreaming
  • Expecting

• It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Family
  • Enjoy

• When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Time
  • Home
  • English

• Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Government
  • Intelligence

• I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Feelings
  • More
  • Married

• There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Should
  • Mathematics
  • Boring

• All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Baby
  • Perspective
  • They Say

• My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Job
  • Water

• With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Important
  • Age
  • Health

• With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Children
  • Night

• Dogma and hierarchy are endemic to such structures...indeed, such are the structures of any theocracy.

  

  Dan Simmons

• When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

  

  Javier Bardem

• My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.'

  

  Dree Hemingway
  • Question
  • Model
  • Walking

• I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

  

  Ruth Negga

• Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • Music

• Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Fashion

• The existential trauma had a physical basis in the first electric extension of our nervous system.

  

  Marshall McLuhan