Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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• Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Fire

• Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • World
  • Successful
  • Miracle

• If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • You
  • Charity
  • Improve

• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Person
  • Memories
  • Stories

• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Sound
  • Strange
  • Table

• When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Home
  • Day
  • Cool

• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Truth Is

• In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Me
  • End

• A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Mind
  • Mouth
  • Flow

• The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Age
  • Man
  • Decision

• A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Want

• People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Death
  • Fear

• I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Important
  • Support
  • Will

• Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Responsibility

• There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Internet

• Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Name
  • Found
  • Letters

• Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • Time
  • Real
  • Control

• Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Wit
  • Ass
  • Badass

• I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Art

• I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Men
  • Father
  • Child

• I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • Period
  • My Life
  • Dumb

• The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Color