Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
-
I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
-
'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
-
To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
-
In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
-
Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
-
Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
-
The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
-
Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
-
They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
-
I come with bad genetics, personally.
-
I always had a fascination with twins.
-
Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
-
Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
-
Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
-
I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
-
Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
-
I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
Nastassja Kinski
-
Everything you can imagine is real.
-
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
-
I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
-
For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at the pictures, you should be able to tell what the story is about without having to read a word of text. That's what I think I brought from doing artwork for film to doing artwork for books.
-
My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy.
-
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
