Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. (p. 66)Marshall McLuhan
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
Patrick Duffy -
When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
Bear Grylls -
Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Nadia Comaneci -
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks -
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips -
I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
J. R. Smith
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Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
Eden Hazard -
People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
Yoko Ono -
The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
Caitlin Doughty -
I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.
Barbara Kruger -
Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.
L.A. Reid
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I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.
Karl Malone -
A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
Samuel Johnson -
Women have always had it hard in this country, Laila, but they're probably more free now, under the communists, and have more rights than they've ever had before.
Khaled Hosseini -
Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.
Andrei Tarkovsky -
Qual d'acqua chiara il tremolante lume,Dal sol percossa o da' notturni rai,Per gli ampli tetti va con lungo saltoA destra et a sinistra, e basso et alto.
Ludovico Ariosto
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Hear Everything and judge for yourself.
George Eliot -
There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.
Kiele Sanchez -
This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail.
Connie Sellecca -
When it comes to my daughter, I'm a conservative. But when it comes to your daughter, I'm a liberal!
Carlos Mencia -
The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. (p. 66)
Marshall McLuhan