Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
-
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
-
I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
-
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
-
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
-
I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
-
I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
-
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
-
A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
-
I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
-
I am from Karnal, India.
-
When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
-
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
-
I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
-
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
-
2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
-
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
-
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
-
It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
-
Like so many first generation children of Indian immigrants, I learned to believe in a dream that is as much American as it is universal: a dream of equal opportunity for all based on merit, of power concentrated not in the hands of a few at the top, but fanning across a large, educated, and civically engaged middle class.
-
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.
-
That's one of the good things about being recognisable - if you need a quick escape, the cabbies will take care of you.
-
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
-
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
