Marshall McLuhan Quotes

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Physical
  • Hardships

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Good
  • Important
  • Rock

• I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Today
  • Respect
  • Perfect

• In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • President
  • Place
  • Direction

• My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Life Is A

• I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Women
  • Age
  • Feel

• The broad-backed hippopotamusRests on his belly in the mud;Although he seems so firm to usHe is merely flesh and blood.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • God
  • Control

• The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • History
  • Strong

• I remember wanting to do something about that enormous-faced wristwatch she was wearing - perhaps suggest that she try wearing it around her waist.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • She
  • Remember

• Peter Sissons: The single currency, a United States of Europe, was all that in your mind when you took Britain in?Edward Heath: Of course, yes.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Mind
  • Single

• Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Reality
  • Deep
  • Wind

• What, like with a cloth or something?

  

  Hillary Clinton

• Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Art
  • Experience

• No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into 'the secrets of the nether world,' as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• I'd love to design a school.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • School
  • Love
  • Design

• I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.

  

  Bill Withers
  • World
  • Trying
  • Guy

• It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Men
  • Character
  • Book

• Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Mean
  • Sometimes
  • Enough

• When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.

  

  Anthony Pratt

• The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
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