Advertising Quotes - Page 39

• Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.

  Bruce Barton

  Men, Names, People

  "The Man Nobody Knows". Book by Bruce Fairchild Barton. Chapter 5: "His Advertisements", 1925.

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• We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.

  Molly Ivins

  Nice, Rap, Home

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• Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became a major industry and the middle class bought radios to hear the ads and cars to get to the stores. ... But there is no question that the consumer culture had begun to crowd out all other cultural possibilities by the years following World War II.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Years, Class

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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

  Freya Stark

  Disregard, Advertisements

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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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• The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.

  Mary McCarthy

  Soul, Today, Rooms

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• Who are the advertising men kidding, besides the European tourist? Between the tired, sad, gentle faces of the subway riders and the grinning Holy Families of the Ad-Mass, there exists no possibility of even a wishful identification.

  Mary McCarthy

  Tired, Men, Faces

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.

  Haile Gerima

  Strong, Cash Flow, Kind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Trying, Want

  "Limbaugh: 'I am trying to earn a profit'" by Mike Madden, www.salon.com. October 13, 2009.

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• Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!

  Barbara Johnson

  Philosophy, Faces, Your Face

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.108, Zondervan

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• The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

  Ilka Chase

  Insecure, Agency, Today

  Ilka Chase (1942). “Past Imperfect”

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• All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.

  Pauline Kael

  Life Is, Propaganda, Courses

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• Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Products

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• Advertise, or go under.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Murder Must Advertise”, p.414, Open Road Media

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• Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Blow, Meals, Three

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Murder Must Advertise”, p.86, Open Road Media

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• In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Use, Firm

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.38, A&C Black

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• Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

  Storm Jameson

  Emotional, Expression, Sincerity

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

  Margaret Halsey

  Communication, Perfection, Tides

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.

  Anita Roddick

  Believe, Cynical, Marketing

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• When two kids came along, I couldnt see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from the theatre for five years. I was a postie for the first part and then worked as an advertising copywriter, but I somehow found my way back.

  Peter Hambleton

  Kids, Years, Two

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• Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Sight, People, Wanting More

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• To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Passion, People, Want

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (1967). “Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising”

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• It's smart to be thrifty.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Smart, Thrifty, Thrift

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (1967). “Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising”

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• All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fall, Ideas, Energy

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• Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Fashion, Art, Construction Sites

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.216, U of Nebraska Press

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