Marshall McLuhan Quotes

One touch of nature makes the whole world tin.

Marshall McLuhan

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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

• There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • God
  • Why

• Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Job
  • Way
  • Television

• As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• It was a revelation as important as any other in its way – that expert men love their subject. Show them interest, show them fascination, and they see themselves reflected – and then they will move the world for you.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • World
  • Men
  • Love

• I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • God
  • Sleep

• One touch of nature makes the whole world tin.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • World
  • Nature