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| 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, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others. | | Uncategorized | |
| Reading is like the sex act-done privately, and often in bed. | | Reading | |
| Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. | | People | |
| Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise. | | Uncategorized | |
| The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. | | Celebrity | |
| The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. | | Life | |
| The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced. | | Uncategorized | |
| The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. | | Advertising; Literature; Words | |
| The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. | | Ignorance; Illusion; Obstacles | |
| The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. | | Uncategorized | |
| The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims. | | Uncategorized | |
| The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all. | | Uncategorized | |
| The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. | | Uncategorized | |
| The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent. So we must continue to have society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imaginings. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself. | | Uncategorized | |
| The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it. | | Uncategorized | |
