Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
Quotes to Explore
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.
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I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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I'm pretty boring.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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Giving kids the chance to see live theatre should not just be free, it should be compulsory.
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
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I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.
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I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.
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The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.
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Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
