Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Marshall McLuhan

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• To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Great
  • Important
  • Passion

• I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Career
  • Artist

• We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Excellence

• We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Say
  • Africa
  • African

• I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Music
  • Different

• Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Light
  • Fashion
  • Try

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Matter

• I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Director

• A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Work
  • Sound
  • Marketing

• I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Actress

• My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Friend

• As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'

  

  Parker Palmer
  • God
  • Truth
  • American

• Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Failure
  • Means
  • Away

• Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Future
  • Proud

• I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Mind
  • Space

• There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Words
  • Church
  • Doubt

• I call my balls the bush twins.

  

  Zach Galifianakis

• The Beltway Right has entered into a civil union with Big Brother.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Brother

• There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Women
  • Connection
  • Intimacy

• You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Knowledge

• In our fear, we are victims of an aggression of the Future.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Future
  • Fear

• Anybody who says global warming's not a problem is basically the mayor in Jaws

  

  Gary Janetti
  • Problem
  • Global
  • Warming's

• There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

  

  Anthony Standen
  • True
  • Word
  • Scientists

• Language is a form of organized stutter.

  

  Marshall McLuhan