#commercial

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#appeared #books #both #commercially #complete

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. ↗

— Lee De Forest

#feasible #financially #impossibility #may #technically

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed. ↗

— Jack Gould

#commercials #less #likely #more #sex

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#commercial #flu #stocks

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#acting #away #came #college #commercial

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#anyone #away #commercial #england #fancy

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#booking #commercial #cruel #did #draw

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things. ↗

— Philip Slater

#commercialism #economy #endless-circles #failed-systems #greed

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#commercial #everyone #had #hat #i

Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor. ↗

— Thayer David

#because #commercial #complete #easily #few