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

• When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Political
  • Caring

• 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
  • Know
  • Not Knowing

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

  

  Ian Watson
  • Time
  • Religion
  • Christmas

• Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

  

  John Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
  • True

• When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Singing

• I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.

  

  Dorothy Denning

• I think carpet bombing is an absolutely tremendous idea if the enemy accommodates you by laying himself out like a carpet in the middle of the desert without any civilians or infrastructure around him. Sadly, the Islamic State has learned that that is a losing proposition and does not accommodate us in that way.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Enemy
  • Desert
  • Islamic

• Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Sports

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

  

  Marshall McLuhan