Quotes with advertisements

  • The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
  • All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
  • Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.

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  • George Orwell All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Gilbert Adair In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.''
    Gilbert Adair
    Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. (1944 - 2011)
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  • Boman Irani Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Calvin Trillin The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Norman Mailer There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Stephen Bayley Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Norman Douglas You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Theodor W. Adorno There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.
    Theodor W. Adorno
    German philosopher, critic and composer (1903 - 1969)
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