Quotes About Magazine Ads

#1. I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.

Yvon Chouinard

#2. We are, I think, eager to show mettle we don't yet have.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#3. Before I really became interested in fashion, all I would look at in a fashion magazine was the ads. It only dawned on me recently that just looking at the ads really doesn't teach you everything you need to know about the fashion world.

Mark Indelicato

#4. I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game.

Don Rickles

#5. The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration ... they think it ill manners.

Mark Twain

#6. There are people who desperately want to change the world.
I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already
in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time.
Or they may just want their names etched nicely on men history.

Toba Beta

#7. They're both bungholes who think they're too noble to shit,

George R R Martin

#8. You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that's a problem. It's a fiscal problem for us.

Dennis Hastert

#9. I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.

Roz Chast

#10. In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

Marcus Samuelsson

#11. The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Paul Klee

#12. By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

Adora Svitak

#13. We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

Joni Mitchell

#14. It is not only the proclamation of the whole truth that is needed today; it is the release of the spiritual reality which the truth expresses, and that can only be realized as we allow ourselves to be caught into the mighty on-flowing tide of the Spirit.

Watchman Nee

#15. I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.

Barack Obama

#16. Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.

Madeleine L'Engle

#17. Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.

Cameron Diaz

#18. Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.

Jerry Adler

#19. We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.

Laurie Halse Anderson