Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Electric circuitry profoundly involves men with one another. Information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously.

Marshall McLuhan

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• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Growing
  • Football
  • Games

• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• I literally don't think about Oscar.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Literally
  • Oscar

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • Suicide
  • Europe

• I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Me
  • Doors
  • Open

• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• Stay calm and aggressive.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Calm
  • Stay
  • Aggressive

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Africa

• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Paint
  • Table
  • Uniform

• Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Remember

• Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Apple

• In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Color

• When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • She
  • Think
  • Crazy

• It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

  

  Pope John Paul II

• Rick Blaine: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have Paris, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night. Ilsa Lund: When I said I would never leave you. . . . Rick Blaine: And you never will. But I got a job to do too. Where I'm going you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now . . . here's looking at you kid.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• The traditional tango is really staccato, but with the Argentine tango, you have to be really sexy and saucy.

  

  Victoria Arlen
  • Sexy

• We, as communities that are marginalized, need to open up our minds and realize that we should be asking and advocating for more of everyone. Let's get more gay black men; let's get more trans women.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

  

  John Milton
  • God
  • Men
  • Truth

• Electric circuitry profoundly involves men with one another. Information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Men