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Marshall McLuhan Quotes

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

Marshall McLuhan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Curves Know Say Want They Say Tell

I have been on a horrible sea cruise. When my wife and I went to Mexico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands, I was seasick for a lot of the time. I didn't like being trapped on a ship with a bunch of shuffleboarders.

Joe R. Lansdale

Sea Time Wife Ship Trapped Cruise

You never know what kind of challenges are going to be thrown in your way or opportunities will arise.

Challenges Opportunities You Know

I never stopped working.

Never Working Stopped

The '80s was a great decade for comedy.

Great Comedy Decade

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

Quality Imagination Famous You Kind

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

Success Looking You Wrong Beast Get

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

Football School College High School

There are two types of stories: public and private.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Two Stories Public Private Types

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

American Washington Same Been Forced

Trump's foreign policy is not so much immoral as it is amoral.

Richard N. Haass

Policy Foreign Policy Trump Much

If you're stressed out by someone, or if something is dragging you down, it will show on your skin.

Someone You Down Skin Will Out

People don't want to treat their nannies subserviently. They don't want to act like bosses. And so nobody quite knows how to behave, and everyone is slightly pretending that the mother and nanny are 'equal' - when that's not the case. And pretending you are equal can make things complicated, even dangerous.

Mother People Treat You Complicated

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