Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 48)

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• Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • She
  • Language

• When you fall in love, you become weak.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Indians

• After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Relationship
  • Question
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• I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
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• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Rap

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Star

• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
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• I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Questions

• I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Home
  • House

• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • America
  • Funny
  • Always

• I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Up
  • Believe
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• What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Know
  • Explain

• Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Fun
  • Successful
  • Have Fun

• For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

  

  Francois Jacob
  • World
  • Future

• There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Death
  • Earth
  • Eyes

• As an actor, you just like to be able to play as much range. I just want to be invisible. I want to be able to be perceived as an artist as opposed to 'a black actor': that's the joy.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Black
  • Joy

• I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn't, thank God.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • God
  • Star

• Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 48)

  

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