Marshall McLuhan Quotes

I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.

Marshall McLuhan

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• We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Experience
  • Religion

• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Jewish

• The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Shark

• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Like
  • Movies
  • Audience

• Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Want
  • Morning
  • Him

• I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Decision
  • Made
  • Radio

• I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Art
  • History
  • Poetry

• Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Work
  • Different
  • May

• I became an air display pilot. I used to teach it. I was an examiner for a few years as well. It was great fun. I would still be doing it now if pretty much everyone I knew who was doing it hadn't died. In the first team I joined there were six people in it. By the time I stopped, there was only me and one other left - everyone else had died.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Time
  • Comfort
  • Fools

• Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Time
  • Men
  • Writing

• The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.

  

  Karl Marx

• There was one picture in particular which bothered him. It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew, sending out innumerable branches, and thrusting out the most fantastic roots.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Picture
  • Wind
  • Tree

• A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Game

• The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;The chest contrived a double debt to pay,A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Night
  • Door
  • Wall

• You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

  

  Garrett Fort

• If you're a terrorist, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun.

  

  Bill Nelson
  • Gun

• I came to Miami for the first time during the winter, and naturally, I fell in love with the weather.

  

  Joanna Krupa
  • Time
  • Winter

• As an actor, when you want to capture the spirit of the character, and the character exists in all of the iterations slightly differently, you work towards getting a sense of what the creators wanted to do, you know? Then, you work off of that.

  

  Chin Han
  • Work
  • Character

• I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Politics
  • Start

• I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.

  

  Marshall McLuhan