Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Literate man, civilized man, tends to restrict and to separate functions, whereas tribal man has freely extended the form of his body to include the universe. (p. 117)

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• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  

  Hannah More
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Present

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Stories

• Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Drama
  • Period
  • Everything

• I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Anything
  • Ever
  • Did

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Bike
  • Riding

• I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Say
  • Paint
  • Hot

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Most
  • Partnership

• Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Passion
  • Christmas
  • White

• Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Love
  • For Her

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
  • Single
  • Encouraging

• From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Greatest
  • Irony
  • Horrors

• I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hate

• Blimey,” said the other twin. “Are you — ?” “He is,” said the first twin. “Aren’t you?” he added to Harry. “What?” said Harry. “Harry Potter,” chorused the twins. “Oh, him,” said Harry. “I mean, yes, I am.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Twin

• No sudden inspiration can replace the long years of arduous labor necessary to train the eye to observe, the hand to reproduce.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Hand
  • Eye
  • Inspiration

• Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Character
  • Universe
  • Easter

• The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Universe
  • Effort

• Literate man, civilized man, tends to restrict and to separate functions, whereas tribal man has freely extended the form of his body to include the universe. (p. 117)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Universe