Marshall McLuhan Quotes
We are numb in our new electric world as the native involved in our literate and mechanical culture. (p. 16)Marshall McLuhan
Quotes to Explore
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
Tara Strong -
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver -
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter -
I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
Randall Munroe -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
Gary Carr
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
Ornette Coleman -
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover -
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
Ralph Vaughan Williams -
What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
Barbara Mandrell -
As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
Kara Swisher -
If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
Walter O'Brien
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
Tammy Duckworth -
The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
Ian Somerhalder -
The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
S. Truett Cathy -
In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
Edmund S. Muskie -
One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
Carla Hall -
There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. Eugene Smith -
It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.
Daniel Bell -
I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck -
I just feel that the East and the West are two different worlds. I sometimes get saddened when I see that very few writers of color are published or reviewed in East Coast presses and magazines.
Sandra Cisneros -
We are numb in our new electric world as the native involved in our literate and mechanical culture. (p. 16)
Marshall McLuhan