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

• I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Security
  • Watching
  • Cause

• 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

• When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.

  

  Feist
  • World
  • Friends
  • Brother

• 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

• In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.

  

  James Cromwell
  • People
  • World
  • Connection

• For me a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Integrity
  • Novel
  • Lines

• Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Progress
  • Sooner
  • Freely

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

  

  Marshall McLuhan