The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (288 page)

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Mackenzie, Kelvin
1946–
1
We are surfing food.
of cable television

in
Trouble at the Top
(BBC2) 12 February 1997

Mackintosh, James
1765–1832
1
The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

Vindiciae Gallicae
(1791) sect. 1

Maclaren, Alexander
1826–1910
1
"The Church is an anvil which has worn out many hammers", and the story of the first collision is, in essentials, the story of all.

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Acts of the Apostles
(1907) ch. 4

McLean, Don
1945–
1
Something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.
on the death of Buddy Holly

"American Pie" (1972 song)

2
So, bye, bye, Miss American Pie,
Drove my Chevy to the levee
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys was drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin' "This'll be the day that I die."

"American Pie" (1972 song)

MacLeish, Archibald
1892–1982
1
A poem should not mean
But be.

"Ars Poetica" (1926)

Macleod, Iain
1913–70
1
It is some measure of the tightness of the magic circle on this occasion that neither the Chancellor of the Exchequer nor the Leader of the House of Commons had any inkling of what was happening.
of the "evolvement" of Alec Douglas-Home as Conservative leader after the resignation of Harold Macmillan

in
The Spectator
17 January 1964

McLuhan, Marshall
1911–80
1
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

The Gutenberg Galaxy
(1962)

2
The medium is the message.

Understanding Media
(1964) ch. 1 (title)

3
Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

in
Guardian Weekly
12 June 1977

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