#advert

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague. ↗

— John C. Crosby

#avoid #concrete #cultivate #delightfully #first

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets. ↗

— Anita Diament

#already #any #before #book #came

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

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#aims #among #aspirations #collective #collective consciousness

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

#advertising #america #appeal #brilliant #had

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#art #art form #entertainment #form #i

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

#advertising #conceal #i #illustrate #manufacturers

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#certainly #display #dull #eyes #may

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#female #genitals #had #hard #inadvertently

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

— Norman Douglas

#ideals #nation #tell #you