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«Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!»
Author: Frances Parkinson Keyes
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertisements, claims, lay claim, medicines, pack, patent, patented, patent medicine, wits
«Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.»
«If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.»
Author: Philip Slater
(Actor, Businessman, Merchant, Professor, Screenwriter, Sociologist, Spiritual mentor)
| About:
Pornography
| Keywords:
advertisements, arouse, covertly, excitement, intended, medium, pornographic, pornography
«I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...»
Author: Philip Dusenberry
| About:
Advertising,
Writing
| Keywords:
advertisements, believed, course, form, notes, noting, of course, profitable, ransom, ransomed, second, take note, The Second, writing
«I do not read advertisements - I would spend all my time wanting things»
Author: Franz Kafka
(Writer)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertisements, All My, spend-all, wanting
«It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement, and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop, look and read. Therefore, study the graphics used by editors and imitate them. Study the graphics used in advertisements, and avoid them.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| Keywords:
advertisement, advertisements, editorial, editorials, editors, graphic, graphics, imitate, readers
«It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
Manners
| Keywords:
advertisements, attack, bad manners, editorially, inviting, magazine, manners, spitting, strikes
«Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| Keywords:
advertisements, advertising agencies, agencies, deaf, helpless, infest, infested, infesting, muted, mutes, opera
«Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertisements, newspaper, relied, truths
«Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertisements, eloquence, magnificence, numerous, pathetic, peruse, perused, perusing, promises, sublime
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