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Letter "E" » extension
«Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.»
Author: Gerald Jampolsky
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
comparison, comparisons, expansion, expansions, extension, measurement, natural state
«My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who i am.»
«The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
extension, introduced, medium, message, new media, scale, social affair, technology, The Message
«The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
central, central nervous system, clothing, computer system, extension, hoop, hoops, hula-hoop, hula, nervous, technological, The wheel, wheel
«Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....To be a traveler?and novelists are often travelers?is to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Writing
| Keywords:
blown, congo, elsewhere, extension, Gaza, go to bed, go to pieces, Grozny, in time, Novelists, perennial, prosperous, reminded, returned, Right Now, Right to return, Rio, sheer, simultaneity, Sudan, surprised, The Congo, this evening, time and space, traveler, travelers, unlikely, visited
«Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
antagonism, antagonisms, ceaselessly, collision, collisions, convulsion, convulsions, extension, fiercely, selfishness, shocks, throe, throes
«The almighty God reveals his presence through Nature or in other words it can also be said that Nature is the 'visible' part of God and in the same manner vice versa is also true....both are inseparable...each being the extension of other. There is no distinction between the two and one is absorbed in the other. »
«LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Longevity
| Keywords:
extension, longevity, uncommon
«Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.»
«I invented the cordless extension cord.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
cord, corded, cordless, extension, extension cord
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