Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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• I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Boring
  • Explained
  • Unexplainable

• The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • Power
  • Hope

• Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • You
  • Will
  • Him

• I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Truth

• I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Think
  • Everything
  • Choose

• Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Country
  • Band
  • Name

• My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Mother

• Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Me
  • Need
  • Socks

• Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Turn

• Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • World
  • Mind
  • Bear

• My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Things
  • Everything
  • Goes

• In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Great
  • Money
  • City

• Artists need to express.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Need
  • Artists
  • Express

• 'A Tale of Two Gardens'

  

  Octavio Paz

• I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

  

  Ralph Ellison

• God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • God
  • Road

• When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you.

  

  William Boyd
  • World
  • Men
  • Desire

• Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

  

  Wyndham Lewis
  • Laughter
  • Seeing
  • Climax

• Every day of my life, I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Day

• I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Women
  • Real

• We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin