Advertising Quotes · Page 38

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

— William Shatner

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

— John Green

[Hillary Clinton] spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an advertising - you know, they get Madison Avenue into a room.

— Donald Trump

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing…

— Liev Schreiber

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

— Edward Abbey

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

— Freya Stark

And one has eaten and one walks, past the magazines with nudes and the posters for bullfight and the Manhattan Storage Warehouse,…

— Frank O'Hara

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her…

— Seth Godin

I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less…

— Gary Numan

“Advertisement! A device for forcing the unwilling into line. Did it matter to a ground vehicle manufacturer whether a given individual felt…

— Isaac Asimov

In the ever accelerating world of the Internet, e-campaigning has gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a year.…

— Howard Fineman

The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers…

— Gloria Steinem

The businessman only wants two things said about his company-what he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays…

— Don Hewitt

The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is…

— Alain de Botton

I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move…

— Lawrence Schiller

The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We…

— Jeff Koons

I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.

— Lucrecia Martel

What needs to change is the nature of advertising itself. That business hasn't really evolved since the days of Don Draper.

— Daniel Lyons

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

— C. Edwin Baker

I have been in advertising and I know my craft well, but ultimately in cinema every scene has to matter, and that…

— Rajkumar Hirani

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic…

— George Thorogood

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things…

— Kit Williams

It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does…

— Gerard J Tellis

Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than…

— Scott Adams

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

— Anonymous

One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.

— Mahesh Bhatt

The more we think we're not affected by media - stereotypes, advertising - the more potential those forms of media have.

— Jennifer Pozner

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

— Sinclair Lewis

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

— Anonymous

Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the…

— Erich Fromm

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

— Marshall McLuhan

The advertising media in this country continuously informs the American male of his need for indispensable signs of his virility.

— Frances M. Beal

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things,…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

— William Bernbach

Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.

— David Ogilvy

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked…

— Cynthia Payne

People don't understand the logistics of advertising. To have the ads purchased and run, you need to have a series of products…

— Susan Wojcicki

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.

— Randy Quaid

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

— Maurice Saatchi

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.

— Meg Rosoff