289 quotes found
“An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.”
“Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.”
“As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.”
“In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.”
“Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to in...”
“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”
“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd you whom the windows observe shame keeps youFrom entering a church and confessing this morningYou r...”
“It’s never been easier for audiences to skip, filter, or avoid advertising, so the best ideas are the ones that respect that the audience needs to get something out of the work; it should inspire, ...”
“Marketing and promoting doesn’t come down to the likes, the pins, the plus ones, the followers, the fans, the friends, the views, or the plays online. Marketing and promoting comes down to the conv...”
“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax ...”
“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and ...”
“What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has be...”
“The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.”
“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it. Femaleness an...”
“The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.”
“Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a girl's only window on male sexuality were a stream of easily availab...”
“What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?”
“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
“To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is cle...”
