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Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically. -- Leo Bogart
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson
Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public. -- Michael Schudson
We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. -- J. B. Priestley
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. -- Norman Douglas
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused -- Samuel Johnson
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. -- Franz Kafka
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued. -- Irvin S. Cobb
I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers. -- Tracey Ullman
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists. -- Donal Henahan
A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization. -- James Cash Penney
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes... -- Phil Dusenberry
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself. -- Walter Jon Williams
It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones. -- Robert A. Metzger
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. -- Norman Mailer
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. -- J. B. Priestley
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases. -- Charles Edwards
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. -- Wyndham Lewis
I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years. -- David Ogilvy
It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices. -- Michael K. Simpson
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic. -- Samuel Johnson
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression? -- Calvin Trillin
I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate. -- Kate Greenaway
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. -- David Ogilvy
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art. -- Paul Di Filippo
As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids. -- Michelle Obama
The public doesnt particularly care for advertisements. -- John C. Malone
The public doesn't particularly care for advertisements. -- John C. Malone
What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements. -- Carolyn Wells
The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life. -- Guy Debord
Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better. -- Brian Acton
We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements. -- Chic Murray
When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention. -- Allen Klein
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists -- Donal Henahan
Dealing with ads is depressing. You donâ??t make anyoneâ??s life better by making advertisements work better. -- Brian Acton
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. -- George Orwell
The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means. -- Jean Vanier
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things. -- William Dean Howells
If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties. -- Isabella Rossellini
If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed. -- Tiffany Madison
The success of an entire advertising campaign may stand or fall on what is said in the headlines of the individual advertisements. -- John Caples
The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the copy. -- David Ogilvy
It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones -- Robert Metzger
One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music. -- Moby
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. -- David Ogilvy
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone. -- John Muir
There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers. -- David Ogilvy
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines! -- Frances Parkinson Keyes
We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth. -- Andrew Denton
If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer. -- Beck
If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic. -- Philip Slater
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them. -- David Ogilvy
People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars. -- George Miller
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble. -- Jane Jacobs
The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality. -- Brennan Manning
Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency. -- David Ogilvy
The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements. -- Bernie Sanders
I naturally own a lot of very old magazines. And I enjoy going to old magazines because the advertisements in those magazines tended to have thousands of words of copy in them. -- John Hodgman
It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye. -- David Ogilvy
When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make a good impression, you should have your manuscript well typed. -- Chinua Achebe
There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence. -- Theodor Adorno
Computer enhancement has spread to still photography in advertisements, fashion pictorials, and magazine covers, where the human figure and face are subtly elongated or remodeled at will. Caricature is our ruling mode. -- Camille Paglia
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting. -- Stephen Bayley
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? -- William S. Burroughs
If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly. -- Michael Schudson
Do any exercise you want as long as you're willing to do it. You see gym equipment on TV advertisements all the time, but guess what? It's only good if you actually use it. -- Mark Spitz
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt. -- Joseph Addison
But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance. -- George P. Rowell
The Holy Grail of advertising has always been advertisement that people want to watch, which occasionally happens. You know, the Super Bowl, people sit there and watch the advertisements. Some print advertising is very beautiful. -- Tim Wu

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