Concise Quote by Marshall McLuhan Download Open image “The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.” — Marshall McLuhan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concise Favour Form Media Sentences Short Typing
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“[The] defining characteristics of good prose [are]: a preference for short sentences diversified by an occasionally very long one; a tone that is relaxed… — F.W. Bateson Copy Share Image
“Often the things that pop out of my typewriter regale me, especially when I am trying to say something else and in a different… — Tom Robbins 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
This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally the more… — John Spiers Copy Share Image
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation. — Patrice Leconte Copy Share Image
In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
The Compound Effect is a must-read book for success seekers. You want to know what it takes? You want to know what to do?… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
What is your Unique Selling Proposition? What makes you different than your competitors? Wrap your advertising message around that USP and communicate it in… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
