Marshall McLuhan Quotes

The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.

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• Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Batteries

• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Great
  • Love
  • Energy

• Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Boxing

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Great
  • She
  • Body

• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Down
  • Build
  • Carpenter

• It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.

  

  Zendaya
  • Real
  • Love
  • She

• The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Experience

• I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Great
  • Girl

• I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Fun
  • Try
  • Have Fun

• 'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Poetry

• I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Success

• I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Why
  • Think
  • Attention

• War is the province of danger.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Danger
  • Province

• I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

  

  Wale
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Passion

• We can appear to be tough as nails, but guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Fall
  • Insecurity
  • Vulnerability

• I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.

  

  Jon Gordon Langseth Jr.
  • People
  • War
  • Christian

• Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Job

• 'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.

  

  Jason Ritter
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  • Friends
  • Guy

• The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
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