Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

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• I waited for my first kiss.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • First
  • Kiss
  • First Kiss

• Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Night

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Zendaya
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Like

• I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Good
  • American
  • Me

• You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Work
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• 'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Mind
  • Kids

• I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Fan
  • Type
  • Biggest

• Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Architecture
  • Very
  • Tough

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Music
  • Always
  • Hearts

• How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Week

• Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Immigrants

• Well, I'm a professional.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Professional
  • Well

• Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Mind
  • Alone
  • Thought

• With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Speaking

• I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Try

• So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Men
  • Suffering

• Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you're like, 'This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' in high school.'

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Trying
  • School
  • Business

• We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • May
  • Alone
  • Red

• In addition to protein, edamame is a great source of fiber and mono-unsaturated fats.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Protein
  • Fiber
  • Edamame

• I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
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