Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Marshall McLuhan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980

Topics

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I think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know... But Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts film to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope the world will become.

Jet Li

LoveGirlHopeCulturePeopleWorld

I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.

Jerry Lewis

LifeI AmCuriousMeThinkMy Life

This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

MorningWake UpSmellPotatoesUp

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Simon Schama

DanceI AmInevitableNeverOldUp

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

Marty Meehan

EnergyInterestingAmericaYearOil

I'm really kind of a little bit romantic for the lost era. There's a lot of us that are - kind like James Murphy, same thing - we feel like it's this magic era that happened before us. And it wasn't even necessarily disco.

Mike D

RomanticFeelMagicDiscoLostKind

The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been sitting on the grocery shelf for weeks, even months - even years.

Julia Child

PerfectSittingSaladReasonSee

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

Jason Clarke

GoodWomenSoulThinkMysteryYou

I went to the doctor recently and she actually prescribed that I go out for ten minutes a day, I'm so depleted on vitamin D.

Jorma Taccone

DayDoctorGoSheOutMinutes

It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.

Ari Graynor

FriendshipWomenMeMoviesUpHalf

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

Anthony Rizzo

I AmSeeingGoNeedUpMiddle

I played comedies and dramas.

William Shatner

PlayedComediesDramas

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