#advert

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#arresting #enough #get #human #human intelligence

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets. ↗

— David Letterman

#apology #bombed #certificate #chinese #clinton

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

— Robert McChesney

#anti-democratic #become #dependent #force #increasingly

Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion. ↗

— Lisa Miller

#conversion #dramatic #religious #undergoing

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that. ↗

— Jay Mohr

#fact #i #i can #i do #marc

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#attention #career #decision #end #enjoy

Here’s a little jingle I wrote about mulch: Mulch--sprinkle, sprinkle, dance, dance, use it with a friend, and use it on your plants. (Not a paid advertisement by the mulching industry) ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dance #funny #jingle #random #silly

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

— Randy Quaid

#celebrity #designed #fair #fair game #game

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#ideals #nation #tell #you

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

— William Bernbach

#art #fundamentally #happens #persuasion #science