Marshall McLuhan Quotes

The role of the artist is to create an Anti-environment as a means of perception and adjustment. (p. 31)

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• If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Life
  • God
  • 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.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Competition

• 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.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Music
  • Science
  • Literature

• 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.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Experience

• If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Good
  • You
  • Proud

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Day
  • Start
  • Television

• 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.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Company

• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Day
  • Always

• My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Great
  • Success
  • Trapped

• I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Fighting

• 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.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Me
  • Never
  • Notes

• Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Trying
  • Relationship
  • Winning

• 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.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Power
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Guy

• I prefer the Telugu film industry, as women are respected more than they are in the Tamil film industry. In Tamil cinema, they care only about their hero, who is God.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • God
  • Women
  • Hero

• I drive from home to my office, a small apartment on the river in the center of Dublin. I write there from 9 a.m. to lunchtime, I take a simple lunch-bread, cheese, nice cup of tea-work until 6 p.m., then home for dinner. Viewed from outside my head it is a singularly dull and uneventful day, but inside my head … aaah.

  

  John Banville
  • Work
  • Home
  • Small

• I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

  

  James Stewart

• Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • Work
  • Business
  • Choices

• If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

  

  Eric S. Raymond
  • Different
  • Present
  • Environment

• Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • True
  • Moments
  • Religious

• The role of the artist is to create an Anti-environment as a means of perception and adjustment. (p. 31)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Environment
  • Perception