An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.
Daniel J. Boorstin[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
Daniel J. BoorstinWhat is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?
Daniel J. BoorstinIn our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.
Daniel J. Boorstin