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| "[Advertising] is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal … It proposes to each of us that we transform ourselves, or our lives, by buying something more. This more, it proposes, will make us in some way richer—even though we will be poorer by having spent our money.” John Berger Quotes |
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"As we turn through the pages of the press and the periodicals, as we catch the flash of billboards along the railroads and the highways, all of which have become enormous vehicles of the advertising art, I doubt if we realize at all the impressive part that these displays are coming more and more to play in modern life...
We see that basically it is that of education...It makes new thoughts, new desires, new actions...Rightfully applied, it is the method by which desire is created for better things. Desire, in turn, is the crucial element separating the civilized from the uncivilized. The uncivilized make little progress because they have few desires. The inhabitants of our country are stimulated to new wants in all directions. In order to satisfy their constantly increasing desires, they necessarily expand their productive powers. They create more wealth because it is only by that method that they can satisfy their wants. It is this constantly enlarging circle that represents the increasing circle of civilization.” Calvin Coolidge Quotes |
| Advertising is a racket...its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes |
| Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. Stuart Henderson Quotes |
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| Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes |
| “Dali and other surrealists manipulate and distort the mundane actuality of the world we live in to reveal the imagined world of our hidden desires. With different goals and different motives, this is exactly the conceptual space where advertising is most often at home.” Barry Hoffman Quotes |
| The trouble with America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. Louis Kronenberger Quotes |
| Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock Quotes |
| Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. Sinclair Lewis Quotes |
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| We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest. Thomas Merton Quotes |
| “The artist and the businessman should cultivate every opportunity to teach and supplement one another, to cooperate with one another, just as the nations of the world must do. Only in such a fusion of talents, abilities, and philosophies can there be even a modest hope for the future, a partial alleviation of the chaos and misunderstandings of today.” Walter Paepcke Quotes |
| Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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| I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. Vilhjalmur Stefansson Quotes |
| Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. John Wanamaker Quotes |
| You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. Norman Douglas Quotes |
| Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. Raymond Chandler Quotes |
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| I LIKE ads. It's not that we don't like ads, we just don't like ads when they are out of place. Bill Barnes Quotes |
| The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. Bill Cosby Quotes |
| Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. George Santayana Quotes |
| If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough. Jeffrey Kalmikoff Quotes |
| The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. Louis Kronenberger Quotes |
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| Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency - she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse. Jacques Seguela Quotes |
| First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. Douglas Adams Quotes |
| When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose. Printers' Ink, 27 May 1915 Quotes |
| Promise, large promise, is the soul of an Advertisement. Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that." Malcolm Muggeridge, quoted in Eric Clark Quotes |
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| In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV. Erma Bombeck Quotes |
| Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. John Fisher Quotes |
| I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out. Colin McEnroe Quotes |
| Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. Marya Mannes Quotes |
| It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have. B. Earl Puckett, quoted in Stephen Donad Quotes |
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| The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. Leonard Bernstein Quotes |
| Advertising is only another form of statistics. Hartman Jule Quotes |
| Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. Edgar A. Shoaff Quotes |
| Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| Living in an age of Advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. J.B. Priestley Quotes |
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| So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free. Jason Love Quotes |
| Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe. Hartman Jule Quotes |
| It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. Nicholas Johnson Quotes |
| Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. George Orwell Quotes |
| As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, Quotes |
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| Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. Will Rogers Quotes |
| Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Quotes |
| Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michae Quotes |
| Never write an Advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. David Ogilvy Quotes |
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
Ogden Nash, "Song of the Open Road,& Quotes |
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| It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. R. Serling Quotes |
| When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded. Pat Brown, quoted in David Ogilvy, Quotes |
| Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease. Author Unknown Quotes |
| What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 1964 Quotes |
