Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Aretino, like Rabelais and Cervantes, proclaimed the meaning of Typography as Gargantuan, Fantastic, Supra-human. (p. 220)

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• Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Good
  • Thought

• Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • More
  • Upset
  • Far

• It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Important
  • Health

• I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Spiritual
  • Positive
  • Driven

• I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Band
  • Thought

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Create
  • Just
  • Cotton

• I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Important
  • Marriage
  • Expectation

• Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Everything
  • Without
  • Poison

• My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Love
  • America

• I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Believe
  • War
  • Past

• I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Father
  • Relationship

• Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Daily
  • Will
  • Computers

• I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Environment
  • Step

• I feel like if you see five films not knowing who made them, you know which one is the Coen Brothers.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • You
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  • Not Knowing

• The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Time
  • Religion
  • Christmas

• In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• You could have everything right but be in the wrong place. You think your business is no good, but really, the problem is your place is no good.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • Good
  • Business

• My best friends are just girls who go to school. They're not in the industry, and we have dinner nights and learn how to cook together and go on hiking trails and the beach.

  

  Nicole Gale Anderson
  • Friends
  • Girl
  • Best

• If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Man

• I realized I was a girl playing with all of these great musicians, but race and gender never did cross my mind, really, until other people started talking about them. They weren't really an issue for me.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

  

  Lou Gehrig
  • Long
  • Guy
  • Differences

• Aretino, like Rabelais and Cervantes, proclaimed the meaning of Typography as Gargantuan, Fantastic, Supra-human. (p. 220)

  

  Marshall McLuhan