advertising quotes

• Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. (Stephen Leacock) [advertising/science/human/intelligence]
• All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. (Roland Barthes) [language/school/advertising/news]
• Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario. (Jean Baudrillard) [advertising]
• It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. (Raymond Chandler) [human/mind/advertising/thing]
• The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. (Bill Cosby) [right/advertising]
• The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions. (Samuel Johnson) [advertising/perfection/art/question]
• Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. (Sinclair Lewis) [advertising]
• The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace. (David Ogilvy) [advertising/product/advertising/willpower]
• What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it. (David Ogilvy) [advertising/more]
• Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom. (John Enoch Powell) [advertising/society/economy/enemies]
• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. (George Santayana) [advertising/argument]
• People forget that I'm still working. I model. I do advertising campaigns. It's not like I'm sat at home twiddling my thumbs. (Helena Christensen) [people/forget/advertising/housing]
• We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative. (Christy Turlington) [advertising/truth]
• The Soviet Union, which has complained recently about alleged anti-Soviet themes in American advertising, lodged an official protest this week against the Ford Motor Company's new campaign: 'Hey you stinking fat Russian, get off my Ford Escort. (Dennis Miller) [advertising]
• I was on the bus with Pop, going to lay brick. There was a newspaper lying on the seat, advertising for singers. I loved to sing as a child. (Dominic Chianese) [tram/newspaper/advertising/singers]
• They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range. (Sharon Gless) [willpower/high/advertising/age]
• “There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them, ... It was actually brilliant marketing.” (Julianne Moore) [time/america/advertising/america]
• “I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House” (Karen Allen) [advertising/girls/film]
• “American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm” (Stephen King) [advertising/education/sound]
• For a long time, because it goes against the message that the advertising world sends to you, they were ashamed they didn’t have the coolest clothes, the coolest cars, couldn’t afford to go here, buy this and do that. I think we finally all got together and went, ‘You know what? We like being this way.’ (Jeff Foxworthy) [time/advertising/think/being]
• I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. (Steven Wright) [advertising]
• In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie. (Richard Attenborough) [words/advertising/movie/movie]

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