Blow Quote by Marshall McLuhan Download Open image “The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.” — Marshall McLuhan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blow
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever. — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One who advances his name, destroys his name. One who does not increase, diminishes. — Hillel the Elder Copy Share Image
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running. — Joe Garagiola Copy Share Image
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker. — Jessica Hahn Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about Portlandia - and I'm not just blowing smoke, although I can blow smoke, but I'm not - is… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Truth is, right now two bombs could drop out of the sky and blow up this house and whatever building you're in and just… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
