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Image Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin
- As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We…
- An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an…
- The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
- The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.…
- What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not…
- The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We…
- Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope,…
- The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not serve us, we…
More Image Quotes
- The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level… — Frederick Lenz
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image… — Emily Blunt
- My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was — William Shakespeare
- What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring,… — Helena Bonham Carter