#almost

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#account #advertising #advertising agency #agency #almost

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising agencies #agencies #almost #destroy #disagreeable

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy. ↗

— Will Oldham

#accept #allowing #almost #america #doing

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#chair #difficult #easier #famous #object

TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you're constantly writing. 'Twilight' had almost a TV schedule to it. I was constantly working on these projects. There was not a whole lot of lull but I've gone onto other feature projects that's like, 'Okay, I'll get back to you on notes.' ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#back #constantly #control #creative #creative control

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#almost #always #animal #camera #first

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. ↗

— John Ruskin

#compensate #cultivation #every #kind #make

If the price is very cheap then it's almost certainly a fake. ↗

— David Russell

#certainly #cheap #fake #price #then

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. ↗

— Richard Russo

#envisioned #held #i #i think #mind

The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy. ↗

— Jil Sander

#also #around #century #cloud #diverse