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  • I wonâ??t sell my songs for no TV Ad -- Adam Yauch
  • Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties". -- John James Ingalls
  • A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.] -- Horace
  • One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials. -- Will Rogers
  • I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.' -- Mos Def
  • Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is. -- Steve Jobs
  • I don't think there's anything Craig Ferguson could say that would make me laugh. Ad-libbing is not the same as entertainment. -- Andy Kindler
  • Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.' 'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan. -- Sarah Dessen
  • On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam. -- Joe Orton
  • I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum. -- Erin McKeown
  • One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. -- Carla Bley
  • Most ads are ignored because every customer has a mental filter that evaluates and dismisses both of these languages of Ad-Speak with a single question: What are they not telling me? -- Roy H. Williams
  • Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old. -- Evan Esar
  • I'd say the real turn in my career came when I did the Dolce & Gabbana International Ad Campaign playing Madonna's son, which was just an incredible experience and I still can't believe actually happened. -- Max Schneider
  • Brand marketers don't believe that ad-tech companies view brands as true partners. Ad-tech companies think brand marketers are paying attention to the wrong things. And publishers, with a few important exceptions, feel taken advantage of by everyone. -- John Battelle
  • There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time. -- Jef I. Richards
  • 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
  • Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you. -- Claude C. Hopkins
  • When I first met Adèle I was like, â??Wow, this girl has a strong character!â?? She has something very free about her. Iâ??m not used to it. Some actresses are too self-aware, they strike a pose. Adèle is a force of nature. -- Lea Seydoux
  • Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten. -- William Bernbach
  • I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world. -- Leo Burnett
  • You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib. -- Denzel Washington
  • We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.' -- Leo Burnett
  • In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything. -- Ruth Reichl
  • Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. -- Neil Armstrong
  • Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable. -- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
  • I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad. -- Leo Burnett
  • The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness. -- Ray Bradbury
  • Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992. -- Anna Nicole Smith
  • If you're Burberry or Gucci, you're not going to run a banner ad. To get brand ad dollars to move to digital, you need to create a beautiful experience. -- Mike McCue
  • I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising. -- Michael Moore
  • I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people. -- J. Cole
  • When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school. -- Jensen Ackles
  • In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad. -- Mark Burnett
  • What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit? -- Joan Blades
  • When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them. -- John H. Johnson
  • I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad. -- Frank Iero
  • Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.' -- Martha Beck
  • IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
  • I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer. -- Gabe Newell
  • Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
  • A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was 'Assassin's Creed', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I'm thrilled by the success of all their hard work. -- Danny Wallace
  • ad astra per alia porci -- John Steinbeck
  • Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad. -- Jay Chiat
  • Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum. -- Susan Sontag
  • It takes an ad to do that well -- Jef I. Richards
  • Plan the sale when you plan the ad -- Leo Burnett
  • The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument. -- George Tyrrell
  • There's an ad for every vice. That's advice. -- Brian Spellman
  • It's the 'National Enquirer' for the ad people -- Joe Sedelmaier
  • There is nothing personal about a personal ad. -- Wes Smith
  • Traditional ad agencies have so much to unlearn. -- Edward Boches
  • I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing. -- Michael Weatherly
  • I did Hilary Duff's 'With Love' music video-slash-fragrance ad. -- Kellan Lutz
  • Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless. -- Bob Hope
  • An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet -- Lee Clow
  • Every ad for every film is exactly the same. -- Robert Altman
  • I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs. -- Vin Scully
  • It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels. -- Josh Williams
  • That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts. -- Samuel Goldwyn
  • I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign. -- Gary Clark, Jr.
  • A good ad which is not run never produces sales. -- Leo Burnett
  • I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude. -- Mike Epps
  • I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything. -- Matt Roper
  • You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different. -- Rosser Reeves
  • Don't say, "the sky is my limit", say, "I progress ad infinitum. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • They send their shout to the stars. [Lat., Clamorem ad sidera mittunt.] -- Statius
  • Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood, -- Newt Gingrich
  • Every ad is an investment in the long-term image of a brand. -- David Ogilvy
  • I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire. -- David Ginola
  • I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem. -- Richard Dawkins
  • ...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents. -- Jonah Goldberg
  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. -- David Langford
  • When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing. -- Paul Tsongas
  • ...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum. -- Andy Grundberg
  • Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble? (Glenn) -- Kim Harrison
  • David Ogilvy made his copywriters come up 100 different headlines for every ad they wrote. -- David Ogilvy
  • Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem". -- Joseph Pilates
  • I think, by this point, almost everything on YouTube has some ad or another. -- Tim Wu
  • My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York. -- Mike McCue
  • My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. -- Bruce Campbell
  • I think you spend 50 percent of your mental energy trying to defeat ad systems. -- Tim Wu
  • Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design. -- Stephen Gardiner
  • If you'd put it in a Powerpoint deck don't put it in your ad -- Lee Clow
  • The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five. -- Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses. -- Evan Parker
  • We haven't had a strategic free kick all night. No one's knocked over attackers ad-lib. -- Ron Atkinson
  • Your ad begins as an interruption. Make paying attention to it feel like a reward -- Lee Clow
  • I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her. -- Andie MacDowell
  • I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey. -- Mahalia Jackson
  • If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you. -- Morris Hite
  • The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do. -- Dick Wolf
  • I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad. -- Hart Crane
  • The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD). -- Michael Tsarion
  • When you're feeling overwhelmed in business, one smart idea can beat the biggest Super Bowl ad. -- Courtney Love
  • Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it. -- Dick Morris
  • Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future.Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov) -- Tom McDonough
  • Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad. -- Richard Branson
  • If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple. -- Carol Bartz
  • I'll just say this: The last problem Paris Hilton has is being in a John McCain ad. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes. -- Bruce Forsyth
  • The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used. -- Raymond Rubicam
  • As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical. -- Kara Swisher
  • I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates. -- Jon Heder
  • Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them. -- Jim Cramer
  • I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad. -- Steve Ballmer
  • You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it. -- Frederik Pohl
  • People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 A.M. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective. -- Susan Estrich
  • The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. -- Robert Burchfield
  • We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. -- Barack Obama
  • Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments. -- Wendy McElroy
  • Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor? [Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?] -- Thomas a Kempis
  • Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors. -- Seneca the Younger
  • If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing bsuiness at all. -- Leo Burnett
  • If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all. -- Leo Burnett
  • I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends." -- Steven Wright
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