Top 100 Ad Quotes
#1. You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.
A.D. Posey
#2. Accept nothing. Challenge everything.
A.D. Posey
#3. Lassiter," Ad and Colin said together. At the sound of the name, even Devina rolled her eyes. "Oh, Christ. Him again.
J.R. Ward
#5. I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.
Chris Carmack
#7. We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.
David Zucker
#8. After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.
Colleen Haskell
#9. In sex women are largely guided by their sensible bodies but men are driven crazy by their feverish minds. Men love to think and talk about sex; women enjoy it while it lasts, if they can, and have little interest in pre-match build-up or post-match analysis.
Michael Foley
#10. You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be.
A.D. Posey
#11. Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble?
(Glenn)
Kim Harrison
#12. You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.
David Brock
#13. A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage, and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.
Jeff Dunham
#14. I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.
Mark Zuckerberg
#15. Don't look.
See.
Don't think.
Feel.
Don't hear.
Listen.
Pay attention
Miracles really do happen every day
A.D. Posey
#16. Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some to madness.)
Francesco Petrarca
#17. Energy will go into what you love, and what you love will grow. Go for a walk and watch it bloom.
A.D. Posey
#18. "Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as traditionally, Jim Henson Company puppeteers have. We're sort of famous for going off script a little bit and ad libbing.
Brian Henson
#19. I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.
Erin McKeown
#20. In fact, I'd say monologuing out your product news and ad messages is decidedly antisocial.
Marc Stoiber
#21. The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.
Alex Scarrow
#22. When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.
John Katzman
#23. Back then, the entire Internet consisted of two slow, boxcar-sized UNIVAC computers about 50 feet apart, connected by a wire. It would take one of these computers an entire day to send an email to the other one, which would immediately delete it, because it was a Viagra ad.
Dave Barry
#24. I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.
Dick Dale
#25. Jerusalem, 61 AD Mariamne dipped her reed pen into the shallow wooden bowl of charcoal and olive oil ink and began writing her last entry on the parchment page in front of her.
Jerry Harber
#26. A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
#28. Paris Hilton has launched a new champagne in a can called Rich Prosecco. For the ad campaign Paris posed wearing nothing but gold paint. That's a unique way to cover up herpes.
Chelsea Handler
#29. You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.
Doris Roberts
#31. Ad majorem Dei gloriam - to the greater glory of God.
John Irving
#33. As a final example, let's remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing war in Iraq, Mr. Glick was invited on The Factor .. I'm not going to dress you down anymore.
Bill O'Reilly
#35. Live whatever draws out the magic within.
A.D. Posey
#37. We inside Diesel are the first consumers of our advertising. We make ad campaigns for our own amusement - that's why they succeed.
Renzo Rosso
#38. Steve Carell is the most spectacular ad-lib improviser ever. And just doing a scene with him, it's just one incredible topping himself on every take.
Lucy Punch
#39. By the way, in that same session an ad popped up that said, "Tired of masturbating?" I thought, "Nope. Try me again in about one-hundred-fifty years.
Adam Carolla
#40. To put it bluntly, if you don't have AD/HD, you do things because they are important. If you have AD/HD, you do things because they are interesting.
Jeffrey Freed
#42. When your heart is open, your eyes see the beauty that is all around you.
A.D. Posey
#43. When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.
Jensen Ackles
#44. Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.
Stephen Baxter
#45. In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.
Ruth Reichl
#46. It's always more than just a story.
A.D. Posey
#47. The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence
roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.
Frank Herbert
#48. It's amazing what you can do when you get creative.
A.D. Posey
#49. Your life should reflect your heart.
A.D. Posey
#50. If you're Burberry or Gucci, you're not going to run a banner ad. To get brand ad dollars to move to digital, you need to create a beautiful experience.
Mike McCue
#51. Traditional local advertising is not what retailers want. They want not just for you to see an ad - they want you to come into the store, to be a repeat customer and to spread the word.
Sam Altman
#52. Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies.
Jerry Della Femina
#53. It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.
Morris Hite
#54. Love is the key to everything. Love your life.
A.D. Posey
#55. There is no time for holding back.
A.D. Posey
#56. I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.
Rob James-Collier
#57. Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.
Fred Wilson
#59. Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems.
Narendra Modi
#60. We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.
Andrew Keen
#61. Sounds kind of ad hoc and jerry-rigged and haphazard.' 'Everybody's a critic. This wasn't an aesthetic endeavor.
David Foster Wallace
#64. Photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.
Andy Grundberg
#65. I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.
Robert Graves
#66. You can't undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future.
A.D. Posey
#67. I don't think it's inherently wrong when bands do certain things - sometimes I'm really excited when I see a band has taken a big ad or sync.
Alex Scally
#68. Yes John and I were together for nearly ten years. It was nice for a long time. I worked for Oldmanston and Pheiff, one of LA's big ad agencies. He and I bought a loft in one of the downtown renovations. Very Pricey. I had a studio. It was all very Queer as Folk.
Z.A. Maxfield
#69. Elijah's wearing white shorts and a bright green shirt and plaid sneakers. People who dress like they're in a perfume ad shouldn't be trusted, in my opinion. They're disingenuous with floral overtones.
Deb Caletti
#70. How do we think beyond interruptive ad formats, and do things that are much more integrated, much more innovative, and actually empower the viewer and give them a better product experience?
James Murdoch
#72. Otherwise, though, the ambitions they had carried with them to Hawaii had slowly drained away, until regularity
of schedules and pastimes ad the weather
became their principal consolation.
Barack Obama
#73. Creativity is magic in the making.
A.D. Posey
#74. Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.
Richard Branson
#75. The more of those little light bulbs that can turn on the better. Eventually you'll have enough to light up a movie screen.
A.D. Posey
#76. An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter. A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself. Who's the better writer?
Jason Lutes
#78. Take a deep breath. Inhale peace. Exhale happiness.
A.D. Posey
#79. Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An effective rebuttal makes it hard for the campaign whose ad is destroyed to be believed about anything ever again.
Dick Morris
#80. Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime.
A.D. Posey
#81. There was a snort, and then his brother's sarcasm came spilling out. It can be your eHarmony ad, bro. Wanted: smart, independent woman to play at D/s. Must like handcuffs, spankings, and anal sex.
Lexi Blake
#82. I think challenge for Facebook is to develop a culture that has the advertiser and the ad service be as strong a part of their culture as the user obsession is.
Jason Kilar
#83. The radio ad "Hi, I'm Jeff Healey from the Jeff Healey Band. Don't drink and drive. I don't". Well, I hope you don't drive sober either Mr. Healey. You're blind for God's sake!
George Carlin
#84. Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.
A.D. Posey
#85. When the world has changed and the rivers run dry ad the forests grow brown will we realize that we don't run the world. We must understand that Nature is what helped us into this beautiful planet, so we must help her in return.
Veronica White
#86. I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.
Matt Roper
#87. Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul.
A.D. Posey
#88. What are you looking at?"
"I was thinking about becoming a lady of the night."
"What?"
"There's actually an ad looking for one. Can you believe it? It pays a grand a week."
"Shit, for a grand a week, "I'll become a lady of the night.
L.A. Fiore
#89. The Muslim Era of Hegira, which marks the flight of the Prophet from Mecca, corresponds to Friday, 16 July AD 622.
Norman Davies
#90. Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.
A.D. Posey
#91. When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.
Colm Toibin
#93. Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.
Cindy Gallop
#94. When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
William Shatner
#96. As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Ad Reinhardt
#97. I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
#98. I was a fan of Andy's since I was a small kid. I recall seeing an ad of famous people on an airplane together. It was caricature drawing. There was Muhammad Ali, there was Miles Davis, and there was Andy Warhol. I had a fascination with him since I was little.
Jeffrey Deitch
#99. Let your story breathe and be what it really is.
A.D. Posey
#100. With any video you see online, like with YouTube, you gotta watch an ad, and that's gotta stop. And I think it'll stop by ... the shitty network shows they put out will just have the ads in the shows. The characters will be eating Cheetos or whatever.
Derek Waters
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