Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Marshall McLuhan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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In the field of astronomy in the mid-'60s, quasars were very sexy objects - gigantic, star-like masses about which little was known. I was a graduate research student at Cambridge working towards my Ph.D. and chose quasars as the subject for my thesis. Part of my project involved surveying the sky for them using a radio telescope.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

SkyResearchSexyStudentRadio

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

Joan Chen

PeopleThinkYouActingBornDrama

When I'm 100 years old, if I make it that long, when I die, probably the first tag line will be John McCain's daughter, and I'm so proud of him and proud of my family's legacy and our life, so I don't have a problem with it.

Meghan McCain

LifeFamilyDaughterLegacyProud

My tastes have always been pretty cheesy. I like Def Leppard. At the same time, my tastes might be pretty universal. I don't know.

Max Martin

TimeKnowSameAlwaysPrettyBeen

The more successful we get, the more opportunities come our way.

Matthew Ramsey

OpportunitiesWayMoreSuccessful

I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.

Robert Capa

I AmWaveGoFirstCompanyDecided

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Joseph Butler

ConsequencesDesireWhyWillThings

I grew up during one of Northern Ireland's most complex periods.

Jonathan Anderson

UpComplexIrelandMostPeriods

When you're faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don't hold back.

Conor McGregor

QuestionsMediaYouBackOpponent

I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.

Anton Corbijn

ActionYouFilmMoveOnlyOnce

Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.

Phil Robertson

GodRelationshipMoneyPeaceMind

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

Sydney Pollack

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