Advertisements Quotes - Page 8

• This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Culture, Way

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• Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.

  David Ogilvy

  Writing, College, Advertising

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• But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Long

  Letter to Harold Laski, 31 May 1923

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• The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

  Freya Stark

  Fashion, Art, Garden

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• Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.

  Marina Abramovic

  Technology, Thinking, Cities

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• advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

  Freya Stark

  Advertising, Disregard

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• This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Commitment, People, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with architectural meaning. Where else would a department store include in its advertisements the name of the architect who created it, or a newspaper property section throw in a scholarly exposition of theoretical design?

  Jan Morris

  Cities, Names, Design

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

  Stella Benson

  Men, Doors, People

  Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a Dancer”

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• First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c.

  Michael Moore

  Iphone, Ipads, People

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• One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.

  Moby

  Nice, People, Licensing

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• Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

  Myrtle Reed

  Death, People, Virtue

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.93, tredition

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• We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely that the source of error is, as the advertisement says, a reflection of the fact that "its dangerous to trifle with Mother Nature".

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Mother, Reflection, Errors

  "Integrity in Scientific Research". Book by Lewis M. Branscomb, 1985.

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• A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

  Fairfax M. Cone

  Self, Dull, Advertising

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• Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.

  Clive James

  Looks, Unions, Able

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• Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Kind, Truth Is

  P. T. Barnum (2005). “Making Money”, p.77

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• Dealing with ads is depressing. You don’t make anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better.

  Brian Acton

  Depressing, Ads

  "Exclusive: The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby" by Parmy Olson, www.forbes.com. February 19, 2014.

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• I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Smart, Come Up, Persons

  "Why Maggie Gyllenhaal never wants her daughter to look herself up online". Interview with Andrea Peterson, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

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• I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

  William S. Burroughs

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• Have you noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now? Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk mail in there with them. I get back at them. I put garbage in with my check when I mail it in. Coffee grinds, banana peels...I write, "Could you throw this away for me?"

  Andy Rooney

  Coffee, Writing, Junk

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• Apple is not sold with advertising despite the long series of clever advertisements produced for the company over the years. It is sold with evangelism, one person talking to another. The advertising reinforces the evangelist message.

  Steve Hayden

  Clever, Talking, Years

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• The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Imagination, Towns, Visitors

  Christopher Isherwood (1949). “The Condor and the Cows: A South American Travel-diary”

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• In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.

  Vivien Leigh

  America, Brain, Doe

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• The headline of an advertisement accounts for 60% of the pull of that ad. In the same way, the start of a letter makes or breaks the letter, because if the start does not interest your reader, he never gets down to the rest of your letter.

  Robert Collier

  Doe, Make Or Break, Letters

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• The success of an entire advertising campaign may stand or fall on what is said in the headlines of the individual advertisements.

  John Caples

  Fall, May, Campaigns

  John Caples (1932). “Tested Advertising Methods: How to Profit by Removing Guesswork”

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