Marshall McLuhan Quotes

It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new medium like radio or TV. (p. 53)

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• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  

  Ice T
  • Control
  • Party
  • Rock

• Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Ego
  • Self
  • Autobiography

• Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Home
  • Day
  • Wife

• I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Running

• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • Home
  • For Her

• I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room for it. It's like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently?

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Song

• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Universe

• Both me and Ishmeet were very naughty. We used to have my grandfather's swords in the house. We used to take all these swords and take all the showpieces Mom had and slice them one by one. He actually locked my nana in the kitchen once for two hours.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • House
  • Mom
  • Kitchen

• If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Success

• I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Important
  • Want
  • Vacation

• I am frequently attacked.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Attacked

• For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Important
  • Listen

• When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Love
  • Fall

• Okay, roll-call, no talking. Benny, Marc; Ethel, Shakina, nice shoes. Bobo twins, anyone seen the Bobo twins? Those Bobo twins.11

  

  Ze Frank
  • Nice
  • Shoes

• Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Dance
  • Theatre
  • Ballet

• I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time.

  

  Mae West
  • Time

• The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Great
  • Community
  • Jump

• The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Father
  • Free
  • Succeed

• It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Teach
  • Something
  • Learned

• When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again, for the first few sentences you'll find yourself in very strange shape, because you're still the person who was speaking the first language. But if you keep speaking that language, you will become the person who corresponds to it.

  

  Eugene Green
  • Language
  • Speak
  • Persons

• It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new medium like radio or TV. (p. 53)

  

  Marshall McLuhan