Adverts Quotes - Page 2

• The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Singing, Riding, Advertising Business

  "The Mechanical Bride". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1951.

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• Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Marketing, Environmental, World

  Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.2, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

  David Ogilvy

  Marketing, Advertising, Economy

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• 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

  Business, Lying, Writing

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Fun, Golf

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• Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

  David Ogilvy

  Evil, Marketing, Advertising Business

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• The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Sex, Fun

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• Good wine needs no bush,
  And perhaps products that people really want
  Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push.
  Why not?
  Look at pot.

  Ogden Nash

  Humorous, Wine, People

  "Most Doctors Recommend or Yours For Fast Fast Fast Relief". "The Old Dog Barks Backwards". Book by Ogden Nash, 1972.

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• Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

  Northrop Frye

  Business, Mixtures, Advertising

  Northrop Frye (1976). “The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance”, p.167, Harvard University Press

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• Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Fun, Golf, Clothes

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• There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Humorous, Advertising Business, Faster

  Jerry Della Femina (2010). “From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harb: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Fun, Business, Believe

  Jerry Della Femina (2010). “From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harb: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• For who does not know, or does not advert to the fact, that what was given to the Roman Church by Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and is preserved even to this day, is what should be observed by all? Nor should anything be added, or anything unauthorized be introduced, nor should an exemplar be looked for elsewhere.

  Pope Innocent I

  Church, Doe, Facts

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• The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.

  Brian Blessed

  Fire, Bread, Radio

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• Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.

  Nandita Das

  Ideas, Groups, Peers

  "India's unfair obsession with lighter skin" by Monisha Rajesh, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2013.

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• He (David Beckham) does have a huge one, though. He does. You can see it in the advert. It is all his. It is like a tractor exhaust pipe!

  Victoria Beckham

  Doe, Tractors, Beckham

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• The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen.

  Kim Cattrall

  Europe, Tv Shows, America

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• I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Car, Gardening

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• You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

  Alexander McQueen

  Ideas, Compliment, Shows

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• Nobody would seriously describe a tiny child as a Marxist child or an Anarchist child or a Post-modernist child. Yet children are routinely labelled with the religion of their parents. We need to encourage people to think carefully before labelling any child too young to know their own opinions and our adverts will help to do that.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Thinking, People

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• I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

  Christopher Parker

  People, Acting, Spain

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• If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

  Ben Elton

  Writing, Police, Hot

  "Ben Elton applauds 'vibrant' standup comedy scene" by Matt Trueman, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

  Laura Carmichael

  Tvs, Cry, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.

  Francis Spufford

  Thinking, Humanity, Income

  "The trouble with atheists: a defence of faith" by Francis Spufford, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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