Messages Quotes - Page 24

• The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Book, Light, Hammers

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 397), 1987.

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• The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

  Robert Burns

  Sky, Voice, Cry

  Robert Burns (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Burns (Illustrated)”, p.412, Delphi Classics

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• Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Eye, Night, Wings

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1897). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous phantasmagoria as will not become, in the clarity of the next morning, a spruce procession for him to lead. Brief the vague horror of his awakening; memory sweeps back to him, and he sees nothing dreadful after all. "Why not?" is the sun's bright message to him, and "Why not indeed?" his answer.

  Max Beerbohm

  Morning, Memories, Sleep

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  School, College, Paper

  "A Message About Messages". Personal Website, www.ursulakleguin.com.

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• The power of citizenship as a shield against oppression was widely known from the example of Paul 's Roman citizenship, which sent the centurion scurrying to his higher-ups with the message: "Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman".

  Robert H. Jackson

  Men, Example, Shields

  "Edwards v. California, 314 U.S. 160, 182". Judicial opinion, 1941.

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• The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.

  Bram Stoker

  Stars, Astrology, Long

  Bram Stoker (2015). “Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• [My first children's book] is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message in there [about how] we're all somehow connected and we all have a responsibility toward each other. Although you may feel alone in the world, you definitely are not.

  Gloria Estefan

  Children, Book, Responsibility

  "5 Minutes With... Gloria Estefan". Interview with Robert Dominguez, www.nydailynews.com. October 31, 2005.

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• I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.

  Gloria Estefan

  Children, Talking, Inspire

  Comment to The Associated Press regarding publication of her second children's book "Noelle's Treasure Tale", October 9, 2006.

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• A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, World, Christianity

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.120

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• People don't mind immoral messages. They don't mind art which says that murder is good, cruelty is good, sex for sex's sake is good. They like it, provided the message is wrapped up a little. And they like messages saying that murder is bad, cruelty is bad, and love is love is love is love. What they can't stand is to be told it all doesn't matter, they can't stand formlessness.

  Doris Lessing

  Art, Sex, Love Is

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Albums

  "Headbanger's Ball", MTV Europe, December 10, 1996.

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• It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can see definite human types gathering there.... My queue is always full of, you know, wild-eyed sleazebags and people who stare at me very intensely, as if I have some particular message for them. As if I must know that they've been reading me, that this dyad or symbiosis of reader and writer has been so intense that I must somehow know about it.

  Martin Amis

  Reading, People, Interesting

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• In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror;Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth,And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest,And you shall know that guest,And read the authentic message of his eyes.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Eye, Fate, Mirrors

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.188, The Floating Press

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• Tim Kaine has a message of fiscal responsibility and generosity of spirit. That kind of message can sell anywhere.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Generosity, Spirit

  "Vetting Obama's 'man'" by Christina Bellantoni, www.washingtontimes.com. August 3, 2008.

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• The value of dreams, like ... divinations, is not that they give a specific answer, but that they open up new areas of psychic reality, shake us out of our customary ruts, and throw light on a new segment of our lives. Thus the sayings of the shrine, like dreams, were not to be received passively; the recipients had to "live" themselves into the message.

  Rollo May

  Dream, Reality, Light

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.106, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.

  John Gielgud

  Ifs

  "I'll Let You Know: Musings from Myrtlebank". Book by Arthur Marshall, p. 63, 1981.

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• [Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation.

  Irving Kristol

  Self, People, Community

  Irving Kristol's essay in "American Spectator Magazine", 1977.

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• This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Life, Motivational, Encouraging

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men.

  Margo St. James

  Sex, Men, Weapons

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• What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

  Alexander Blok

  War, Reflection, Years

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• So what were Europeans telling their leaders? The general message was perfectly summed up by the cartoonist Chappatte, who drew a group of protesters holding up a placard shouting "Unhappy" - and one of their number shouting through a megaphone into the ballot box. There are 28 member states and 28 varieties of Unhappy.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Numbers, Leader, Unhappy

  "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

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• This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.

  Yasser Arafat

  Children, Hero, Tanks

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• [Her message to women and girls of the world] You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. And it is incumbent upon you to use that power - not only for yourself, but for everyone else around you.

  Jennifer Beals

  Girl, Powerful, Use

  Global Health TV Interview at Women Deliver Conference, June 16, 2010.

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• And while blood's the only language that your deaf old ears can hear And still you will not answer with that message coming clear Does it mean there's no more ripples in your tired old glory stream And the buzzards own the carcass of your dream?

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Tired, Mean

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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