Rubicam Quotes

#1. Mrs. Pritchard could not stand an anticlimax. She required the taste of blood from time to time to keep her equilibrium.

Flannery O'Connor

#2. Mirror the reader to himself and then show him afterward how your product fits his needs.

Raymond Rubicam

#3. No infallible oracle out of the breast.

Frederic Henry Hedge

#4. It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.

Joseph O'Neill

#5. The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used.

Raymond Rubicam

#6. In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

James Agate

#7. Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

Richard Branson

#8. We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Nelson DeMille

#9. You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

George Carlin

#10. New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.

Robert Wilson

#11. The only purpose of advertising is to sell. It has no other function worth mentioning.

Raymond Rubicam

#12. Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's A Separate Peace: The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse.

Michael E. Gerber

#13. Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and persuasion accorded to the politician, the preacher, the lawyer, and to every other individual who has a special interest in something, whether a creed or a commodity.

Raymond Rubicam

#14. Steinbeck wasn't the thirties and Dickens wasn't the eighteen-hundreds. They were of their times but for the ages. Their writings are not products marketed for a brief time until they're out of vogue and discarded on the scrap heap.

Elliot Perlman

#15. After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

Rand Paul

#16. I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Dorothy Allison

#17. There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself.

Dave Davies

#18. People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

Charles Mathias