Quotation Explorer - 'Advertis'

Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring - Seymour Papert
A flower is a weed with an advertising budget. - Rory Sutherland
Some people have a hidden richness waiting to be discovered. They don’t advertise it, but it’s there for those willing to scratch beneath the surface. - John Mark Green
It's hard to focus on loud mod to read something like the TV is playing something like Advertising and other boredom stuff and stupid and you are reading an article about topics which are difficult one. - Deyth Banger
Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash.
He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop. - Aldous Huxley
Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. - Noam Chomsky
The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising. - Emily Post
If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed. - Tiffany Madison
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. - George Santayana
Today I met with a subliminal advertising executive for just a second. - Steven Wright
This is new. Old Quinn would not have worn a skirt on her first day of sophomore year. Old Quinn would have worn a pair of jeans (hole in the knee? even better) and a t-shirt advertising the Providence Prep volleyball team, or some other sports team I didn’t play for. - Selena Brooks
Osborn was a founding partner of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn (BBDO), but it was as an author that he really made his mark, beginning with the day in 1938 that a magazine editor invited him to lunch and asked what his hobby was. Imagination, replied Osborn. - Susan Cain
I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. Now, if I only knew which half. - John Wanamaker
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. - Bill Cosby
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
Be as advertised. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. - Bill Hicks
A businessman who stops advertising to save money is like a foolish who stops a clock to save time. - Moosa Rahat
Wisdom of the Ages: "Look out Below!" Air Asia's catchy new advertising slogan. - Matthew Heines
In a culture of hyper-consumption the advertising industry has brainwashed many people into believing they can raise their status just by driving a particular brand of whatever it is they are pushing at you. - Stephen Richards
The King had advertised the old magic tea set, but for some reason, no one wanted sugar teeth that could gouge their eyes out. - Heather Dixon
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. - George Orwell
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. - David M. Ogilvy
Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise. - Amit Kalantri
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Leacock
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. - John Wanamaker
No wonder the sky had to be blotted out by advertisements. The stars drowned with lights. If everyone could see beyond Coalition horizons, perhaps they'd see the titans of humanity for what they were: tiny creatures, smaller than insects, and in the scale of things, every bit as insignificant. - S.J. Kincaid
You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better. - Daniel C. Dennett
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. - Holbrook Jackson
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. - Fred Allen
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists. - Sara Sheridan
From good to the better for the best!Sounds like taken from Advertisement, as for my works. If you are open person in being honest... rape/murder/killing... it's something which is around us. - Deyth Banger
We are advertis'd by our loving friends. - William Shakespeare
Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. - Sinclair Lewis
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. - Ivan Illich
When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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 M. Ogilvy
This is the truth about mainstream media and advertising: People wouldn't have to pay to show you such messages if they were right. - J.R. Rim
Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats. - Stephen Leacock
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise - Ted Turner
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. - David M. Ogilvy
Advertising is legalized lying. - H.G. Wells
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. - Mark Twain
The codfish lays ten thousand eggs.The homely hen lays one.Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done.And so we scorn the codfish,while the humble hen we prize,which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise! - Nikhil Sharda
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Leacock
Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation. - Calvin Coolidge
Pavlov’s dogs will drool at the site of any food,So go ahead and ring the bell, Sing a classical song about it and Then advertises what sells - Charmaine J Forde
If you have an idea, you will likely have difficulties during the process ofrealization regardless of the type of idea (scientific idea, invention idea,business idea, new product idea, brand idea, advertising idea, etc.). - Eraldo Banovac
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
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - Mark Twain
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. - Fred Allen
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. - Fran Lebowitz
It’s never been easier for audiences to skip, filter, or avoid advertising, so the best ideas are the ones that respect that the audience needs to get something out of the work; it should inspire, satisfy, or motivate them. You can’t just bombard people with messages anymore. - Ajaz Ahmed
Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all. - Mark Crispin Miller
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. - Raymond Chandler
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, especially if the goods are worthless. - Sinclair Lewis
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.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. - Norman Douglas
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. - Paul Fussell
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