Marshall McLuhan Quotes

There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

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• I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Know
  • Difference
  • How

• Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Grow

• I don't have time to be depressed.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Depressed

• The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Fall

• I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Love
  • Man
  • Sexy

• You cannot make horses 'safe.'

  

  Zara Phillips
  • You
  • Make
  • Safe

• The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Best
  • State
  • Anarchy

• The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Time
  • Real
  • War

• When we do something we have never done, we are already on the road to healing. We must break the routines.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Done
  • Road
  • Healing

• The Euthyphron then gives us a two-fold presentation of piety. First, a discussion of what piety is. Secondly, a presentation of the problem of Socrates' piety.

  

  Leo Strauss

• The taxpayers deserve accountability.

  

  Byron Dorgan
  • Accountability

• Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • People
  • True
  • Light

• I'm not really worried about writer's block.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People

• Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

  

  Jim Bakker
  • World
  • God
  • Why

• Avicii's melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I played on piano. I thought if I could teach myself how to produce and get those melodies out of my head and into the computer, maybe I could make some cool music, too.

  

  Kygo
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Cool

• When you walk onto any set, it's usually primarily men. Which can be weird, especially when you're doing something emotionally challenging.

  

  Billie Lourd
  • Men
  • Weird

• I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Believe In

• Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

  

  Paul Tsongas
  • Children
  • True
  • Environment

• She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • She
  • Quality
  • Dark

• Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Custom
  • Adopt
  • Ungenerous

• There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

  

  Marshall McLuhan