#advert

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#america #copy #life #poetry #prose

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#american #begin #convenient #critics #imperfections

CBS is the largest out-of-home advertising company in the U.S. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#cbs #company #largest

An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#loneliness #sincerity #art

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#asylum #bad #bad taste #come #crazy

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. ↗

— George Orwell

#advertisement #christian #christian religion #religion #socialism

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#lead #leads #may #much #sales

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it? ↗

— David Riesman

#america #ask #create #fantastic #fraud

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them. ↗

— Will Rogers

#advertising #amount #improving #money #products

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#bow #culture #equally #find #gods