Marshall McLuhan Quotes

One touch of nature makes the whole world tin.

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• 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

• And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • Know
  • Voice

• I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Party
  • Gossip

• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Happy

• Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Country
  • Movie

• I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Women
  • Career
  • Thought

• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• I buy when other people are selling.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Business
  • Selling

• Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • English
  • Blonde

• It's always fun when people ask you for advice.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fun
  • Advice

• Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Future
  • Perspective

• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Know
  • Kindness
  • Late

• My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Me
  • Play
  • Mom

• When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Girl
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Know

• I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Time
  • Money
  • Free

• People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • People
  • World
  • Death

• Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

  

  David Bohm
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Communication

• The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • World
  • Passion
  • Madness

• Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Memorial
  • Parties
  • Cocktail

• One touch of nature makes the whole world tin.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • World
  • Nature