Marshall McLuhan Quotes

The 'tragic flaw' is not a detail of characterization, a mere 'fly in the ointment', but a structural feature of ordinary consciousness. (p.45)

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• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wrong
  • Stand
  • Him

• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Door
  • Difference
  • Republican

• I don't care about how much other actors get.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Care
  • Other
  • How

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • People
  • Great
  • Pretty

• When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Movie

• As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Home
  • Sweet
  • Welcome

• Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Write

• I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Faith
  • Better
  • Place

• If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • People
  • Great
  • Positive

• In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Change
  • Humanity
  • Growth

• I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Family
  • Truth
  • Day

• Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Time
  • Blonde
  • Every Time

• One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Between the mysteries of death and lifeThou standest, loving, guiding,- not explaining;We ask, and Thou art silent,- yet we gaze,And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining;No crushing fate, no stony destiny!Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Art
  • Death
  • Rest

• Gabby called it 'Congress on Your Corner' - just an updated version of government of and by and for the people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Humanity

• The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
  • Universe

• The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • Kids

• Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

  

  James Fenton
  • Free
  • Quality
  • Poetry

• The 'tragic flaw' is not a detail of characterization, a mere 'fly in the ointment', but a structural feature of ordinary consciousness. (p.45)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
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