#his

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history. ↗

— Al Oerter

#history #i #my own #other #own

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

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#agent #allow #buy #consumers #dishonest

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

#attack #bad #bad manners #dinner #eye

If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#bush #company #dinner #friends #george

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#african #ages #aids #because #been

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ↗

— Babatunde Olatunji

#gift #history #mystery #present #today

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be. ↗

— Will Oldham

#case #could #ever #exciting #his

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. I saw a kid walk into a restaurant the other day and his belt was below his backside. I would have turned him away. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#acting #away #backside #below #belt

The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#building #corner #cut #decide #entire