Fairfax Cone Quotes

#1. Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever more bleak. This is probably the very height of lonesomeness. He is one person and he is alone

Fairfax M. Cone

#2. James Lovelock is one of the great thinkers of our time. His ideas and inventions have opened up new insights into our planet and the way it works, and the story behind them will appeal to a very wide audience. I am pleased to recommend this book.

Chris Rapley

#3. The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

Fairfax Cone

#4. One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

William Hull

#5. Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

Fairfax Cone

#6. Ah, yes, crooked paths often end in quicksand.

Lilli Thal

#7. A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

Fairfax M. Cone

#8. If you feel well and happy, your face will reflect this, but if you are down in the dumps and having a miserable time, your face will soon show this, too. In fact, you get the face you deserve by the time you're forty, and one of the keys to looking and feeling younger is being active.

Joan Collins

#9. There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

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#10. Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Niall Williams

#11. I never have cakes or biscuits. I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and I can't stand chocolates - I find them so sickly. However, I will buy cakes if I'm expecting company.

Kate O'Mara

#12. It's a frightening thing to act on your opinions. You've got to find confidence in yourself, not in what others think of you. I'm still trying to separate how I see myself from how I'm perceived. It's not easy, but it's worth it.

Carly Pope

#13. Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only-
then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what the wisdom of humanity,your intellect and your heart tell you: that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world.Then life becomes a joy

Leo Tolstoy

#14. Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.

Herrick Johnson

#15. Man would rather be loved for what he has, than be hated for what he lacks.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#16. Write to one person, not a million.

Fairfax M. Cone

#17. How about we give each other everything we can and not blame each other for what we can't.

Jill Shalvis