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Marshall McLuhan

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Short sentences drawn from long experiences.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
You'll never get anywhere with all those damned little short sentences.
GREGORY CLARK
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
UNKNOWN
Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that...
E. L. DOCTOROW
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myse...
CAROL BURNETT
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
OSCAR WILDE
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breat...
STEPHEN KING
I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
DANA SPIOTTA
As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer ...
ADAM LEITH GOLLNER
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstr...
BRUCE JACKSON
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with se...
NEIL GAIMAN
David was catnip and kryptonite to me.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecess...
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.
Equations are the devil's sentences.
STEPHEN COLBERT
The sentences are in line with promoting discipline in the army.
LT. DEO AKIIKI
These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound goo...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
The words of the world want to make sentences.
GASTON BACHELARD
Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subjec...
DR. SEUSS
The sentences are grossly excessive and unconscionable.
CHRISTOPHER FERNANDO
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
WOLCOTT GIBBS
You have to be short and concise with them,
JOHN HOGAN
To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
ANATOLE BROYARD
He and I can finish each other's sentences. We're very aligned.
SCOTT MCNEALY
I never had to finish sentences because he would finish them for me, ... I never got why. What was g...
JOAN DIDION
A few sentences are enough to tell the truth.
ROBERT SARAH
The ones who are serving life sentences are victims.
LINDA FOLEY
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
ELLA MAILLART
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may b...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking...
JIM CALLAGHAN
It's not uncommon for them to serve short sentences, if they serve any sentence at all. That's not u...
MAJ. GREG BAKER
Just get rid of judges altogether. Just let the Legislature set the sentences.
DON SAMUEL
Hot, short, thorough," I said. I hesitated before adding, "Please." It never pays to insult computer...
MIRA GRANT
With the usage of etc, Britishers had a nice, convenient and easy way of leaving meanings, sentences...
APURVA GAGLANI
Sentences are not as such either true or false.
J. L. AUSTIN
Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
JOHN PIPER
If you look at some of my stuff, the syntax is almost nonexistent. You don't have normal sentences, ...
JUDY ROITMAN
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
DAVID REISMAN
The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can a...
ANTHONY KENNEDY
Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.
MAX LUCADO
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
OSCAR WILDE
Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN
If that was true, we wouldn't see any death sentences coming out of Texas — unanimous jury required...
LARRY SPALDING
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought
STEPHEN KING
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.
JOEY SANTIAGO
If you start most of your sentences with 'Why Can't', 'Why Not', or 'What if', you'll build a strong...
COREY AARON BURKES
If you're going to read this, don't bother.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
What they decided to do was tell judges to do whatever you want as long as you make the sentences hi...
JEFFREY GAMSO
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
VERONICA ROTH
Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
As for the family members of victims, slap-on-the-wrist sentences compound the grief process.
JUNE RENFROW
Judges look at the gravity of the offence and the responsibility of the offender in determining sent...
IRWIN COTLER
Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
DENIS DIDEROT
let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences
SYLVIA PLATH
In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.
GEORGE W. BUSH
She is saying some sentences. Yesterday she walked 80 feet twice.
MAGGIE MERMIN
Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER
The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
There are a lot of things you can be doing with your kids. We want them to write sentences by the en...
MICHELLE GREEN
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
DENIS DIDEROT
Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of previ...
BARRETT WENDELL
On any given day, I'm likely to be working at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Tho...
MICHAEL DIRDA
He uses a lot of big words, and his sentences run from here back to the airport.
CAROLYN CHUTE
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
JULES RENARD
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins
JULES RENARD
We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.
SHEPARD SMITH
Long words and complex sentences are intended to add importance to something unimportant
JACK MABLEY
He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life in...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes...
JAMES PATTERSON
should not have rounded this number off to below $10 million, which reduced the length of the defend...
RICHARD POSNER
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling th...
TONI MORRISON
Everyone says two sentences and that's it! We can be home in twenty minutes!
STAR TREK
You ought to be able to state your plan in a few succinct sentences,
VIRGIL
Usually it's when your guard is down that you find yourself saying the most dick sentences of your l...
JESSE ANDREWS
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
POLLY TOYNBEE
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of the whole volume, single sentences that have t...
JOSEPH JOUBERT
If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist esse...
MICHAEL ENDE
These sentences frankly are out of control. You get a sentence that's akin to what you would get for...
DAVID GOUREVITCH
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to wr...
MARK TWAIN
The seven-year prison sentence is not that great, but it's not out of the ballpark for sentences in ...
LARRY KNIGHT
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed...
TAHEREH MAFI
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEIN
'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
KAMALA HARRIS
Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of the...
JEFF ZASLOW
Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of ther...
OSCAR WILDE
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more tha...
PETER STRAUB
I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.
GRAHAM PARKE
By honing the sentences you used to describe the world, you changed the inflection of your mind, whi...
GEORGE SAUNDERS
One of our riders with cerebral palsy recently started talking for the first time. She wasn't verbal...
CHRIS HUDSON
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.
ALEXANDRA PETRI

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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
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Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
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BARRY MARSHALL
Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place name...
NEIL MARSHALL
I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he d...
GARRY MARSHALL
My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My par...
GARRY MARSHALL
A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts us...
GARRY MARSHALL
I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But wi...
GARRY MARSHALL
You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover the...
GARRY MARSHALL
I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
GARRY MARSHALL
When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and...
GARRY MARSHALL
My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a lau...
GARRY MARSHALL
I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and thi...
GARRY MARSHALL
We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
GARRY MARSHALL
Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
GARRY MARSHALL
My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazi...
GARRY MARSHALL
I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt th...
GARRY MARSHALL
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else...
GARRY MARSHALL
I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about th...
GARRY MARSHALL
There is more to life than show business.
GARRY MARSHALL
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I sp...
GARRY MARSHALL
I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represent...
GARRY MARSHALL
It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can ...
GARRY MARSHALL
When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
GARRY MARSHALL
In the education of the American people, I am Recess.
GARRY MARSHALL