Medium Quotes

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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will… — Mahatma Gandhi
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself. — James Gleick
Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the… — Frank Lentricchia
Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by… — Nicholas Sparks
As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and… — Astrid Lindgren
She smiled. "I need your opinion," she said. "What do you think about something sleeveless for this weekend? With a cinched waist and a medium… — Nicholas Sparks
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so… — Bertrand Russell
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact itâ€™s essential to slow down and read every… — Francine Prose
We donâ€™t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short… — Susan Cain
I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of… — Ingmar Bergman
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think… — Jane Yolen
All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly… — Neil Gaiman
The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them out to acountants,… — Grant Morrison
It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve… — Zelda Fitzgerald
You donâ€™t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if youâ€™ll ever learn. — Madeleine L'Engle
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies. — Hermann Hesse
At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is… — Roger Ebert
I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. — Marshall McLuhan

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