#isi

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#greatness #illusions #same #visions

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#certainly #deal #deception #enough #full

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco. ↗

— Gary Cole

#away #did #francisco #high #high school

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#i #i can #me #people #smoking

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#advertising agencies #agencies #anywhere #fear #found

I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#forget #hurt #i #people #pretty

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen. ↗

— Norm Coleman

#backwards #cloud #decisions #dishonest #endless

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #exquisitely #genius #hence #humour

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#advertising #brokerage #business #cannot #constructive

Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult. ↗

— James C. Collins

#company #competitors #crisis #during #every