Bill Bernbach Quotes

#1. Most of the people in advertising now - mention Bill Bernbach to them, they don't know.

Jerry Della Femina

#2. I'm sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it's true. Advertising sucks. Guys like me and Bob Gage and certainly Bill Bernbach and two or three other guys, we exemplified and led the creative revolution.

George Lois

#3. I came into advertising in 1961. I had been turned down for jobs on the Ford account in the late Fifties as 'not their type.' If it hadn't been for Bill Bernbach, I would now be sitting in some luncheonette, continuing my life as a messenger.

Jerry Della Femina

#4. Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.

Camille Paglia

#5. I've grown a lot as a player. I learned a lot, and I just have to keep building on that.

Jake Matthews

#6. Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Some people think technology has the answers.

Kevin Mitnick

#8. I will not see you, she tells the city, but I will remember you.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#9. I felt my voice had fallen through and through me, and I couldn't summon it back to tell him or myself anything at all.

Tea Obreht

#10. I'm a very physical actor. I use everything - toes, teeth, ears, everything. I don't simply mean physical in the sense of movement and vigour. I find myself remembering the shape of a scene by how I'm standing, what I'm doing.

Peter O'Toole

#11. Given that Socrates was effectively assassinated by poison, you might think twice before accepting his invitation to breakfast.

Robert Rowland Smith

#12. As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

Tim Wise

#13. Bacon. Crispy. Salty. I could just eat a mountain of bacon for breakfast; it's so delicious.

Willie Geist

#14. I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.

Florence King

#15. You sure? No one will know we're down there.' 'Makes no difference. The Environment office was closed when we left, and I never called ahead to the Porjus branch. It'll be fine though.

Adam Nevill