Mediums Quotes

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In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is… — Marshall McLuhan
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and… — Ezra Pound
Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living… — Henry Miller
All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium… — Raymond Chandler
I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this… — Cecelia Ahern
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence â€” as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very… — Roland Barthes
Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have… — Rachilde
I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your… — Charlotte Bronte
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. — J M Coetzee
The body is our general medium for having a world. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but… — Ming-Dao Deng
He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an… — J M Coetzee
And then as always, I saw the prayer coming at me. And, as always, Number 1 killed me! Set me on fire, cooked me to… — James Patterson
The medium obscured the message. — Christopher Moore
I remember everything about itâ€”with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling,… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia". — Guillermo del Toro
Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they… — Will Eisner
Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small… — Charles de Lint

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