Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marshall McLuhan

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

Marshall McLuhan

The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

Marshall McLuhan

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

Marshall McLuhan

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

Marshall McLuhan

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

Marshall McLuhan

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.

Michael Wilbon

The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.

Michael Ruppert

All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy.

Michael Nesmith

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

Michael King

Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

Mark Leibovich

Media has changed dramatically, as you and I know. We're in a world now where you're rewarded for being outrageous. Punditry has replaced reporting as the gold standard of journalism.

Mario Batali

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

Marilyn Manson

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

Christina Aguilera

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

Chris Grayling

These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media,

Hans Blix

I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.

George Packer

Twitter is crack for media addicts,

Nancy White

It's not that the (social media) tools themselves inspire trust and collaboration. We use them as a medium to connect, and thus generate trust and enthusiasm.

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

Jose Antonio Vargas

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

Keke Palmer

I like to read quotes that touch on how I am feeling [on social media]. If I am dealing with confusion, I will read quotes about clarity and peace of mind. I started posting these quotes on my Twitter page, and the fans responded so positively! I realized that many of them were dealing with similar issues, and the quotes helped to open up a genuine dialogue between us.

Joaquin Phoenix

I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.

James Packer

The history of media is the market share of advertising dollars has followed.. albeit with a lag.

James Madison

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Emilio Estevez

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

Emilio Estevez

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

Ellen Lupton

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.

Eric Alterman

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

Eric Alterman

To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands.

Hilarie Burton

In the world of Facebook and Twitter, you can treasure hunt for tidbits about somebody that you find interesting and pretty much find out everything you need to know - which is why I stay away from social media - I'm terrified of it.

Henry Jenkins

From American Idol to The Matrix participatory media - where old and new media converge by involving fans - is influencing our culture by creating new forms of interactive storytelling. Yet by enabling people to participate in such various media they can converge as a crowd to alter the story to create new modes of engagement, some not necessarily endorsed by the creator - or the brands that back them.

Naomi Wolf

Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

Narendra Modi

Social media changed my thought process and connected me to the rest of the world. And as I started connecting, the world started accepting me as I was. Nothing could be more satisfying.