Mischief Quote by Marshall McLuhan Download Open image “People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.” — Marshall McLuhan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mischief People Science Writing
No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little… — Brian A. McBride Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to throw a… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral)… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty. — Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke Copy Share Image
No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
