Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The role of the artist is to create an Anti-environment as a means of perception and adjustment. (p. 31)
Quotes to Explore
-
If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
-
I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
-
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
-
Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
-
If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
-
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
-
I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
-
As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
-
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
-
My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
-
My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
-
I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
-
When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
-
Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
-
I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
-
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
-
For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
-
Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
-
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
-
The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.
-
Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.
-
Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.
-
The role of the artist is to create an Anti-environment as a means of perception and adjustment. (p. 31)
