Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Heffernan

Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful.

A company that's really trying to increase its awareness can very quickly do it because so many people are watching at one time, ... The gala around the Super Bowl ads has become so well known ? I've observed parties where people actually are quieter during the ads than they are during the game.

It's a sad fact that people think we are the ones running a negative campaign, which is not the case at all. When we put something out there, we always document it. Contrary to public belief, all of our ads are pretty much based in fact.

Martin O'Malley

A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.

Jello Biafra

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.

They say the ads are still out there and they believe they may help, but other people say the credibility of all the ads has probably been very badly damaged by that one ad that was such a mistake.

It's not particularly surprising that these ads didn't do as well when you consider they are talking to a pretty specific audience.

The number of job ads per 100 participants in the labor force is consistently highest on the West and East coasts and in the Mountain area.

It's not unusual for party building ads to feature a prominent member of the party.

There were also print ads in the Times Picayune, the Advocate and some other local newspapers. The next part of the campaign is that we're going to get some billboards up in some strategic areas.

David Suzuki

Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'

Virginia Postrel

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at least as much rhetorical intelligence as we apply to any other form of persuasion.

We know from the recent Super Bowl in this country that a lot of these beer ads were aimed at men between 21 and 34. So we certainly have this perception that young people are drinking the most, but that's not necessarily the case.

We are proud to join Mrs. Bush and continue our successful partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America with this new advertising, which has the potential to positively impact so many young people in our country. I am confident that these touching ads will encourage many more adults to become mentors and bring magic into a child's life.

Until now, there is no way for the user to actually interact with these ads in the video.

Whether these suits have any validity is another question, but I think you're going to see more of them. I've seen ads saying, 'If you've been a customer of XYZ firm and lost money, you'll be able to recover it.' You'll see a lot of ambulance-chasing lawyers trying to feed off of this.

What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars--you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.

We feel confident in our strategy because we have had proven success by embedding our planar EM tool -- Momentum -- into the ADS flow. This has been a clear advantage for our customers, and we believe the same market success will be duplicated with this full 3D technology.

We're reaching out right now to find out where they all are. We've contacted many of them, but we're still running ads in local newspapers. We've even taken out banners towed by airplanes.

Jack Baker

Our alliance has taken a new approach that positions space ads as an internet marketing strategy.

After the ads run for a long time, they become formulaic, and you become wallpaper. You have the same comic twist and you get a little predictable.

The money Ms. Rice raised allowed the campaign to air more ads than our opponent in the closing days, when people are paying most attention.

Any business that is trying to sell something should be willing to spend a couple dollars for a stock photo to not have ads in it and not distract the user from using the product they're trying to sell.

Esteban Loaiza

The television ads promoted the United States, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. They never mentioned Mexico. So we had to prove ourselves on the field.

Chuck Schumer

The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government.

The municipal election commission should get cranked up immediately to get the ads in the newspaper so people understand there's a special election coming up to fill that seat.

Pierre Omidyar

Advertisers don't want to put their ads next to the investigative story; it's extremely difficult to do that. And very few people today actually read those serious news stories on the Web now.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Advertisers don't want to be ignored, and they are drunk on our data, which is what Google and other large networks are really selling. The ads are almost a by-product; what companies really want to know is what antiperspirant a woman of 25-34 is most likely to purchase after watching 'House of Cards.'

Ads work with search because you are at a decision point when you search for something. You are just a click or two away from a transaction.

Ads were designed to grab attention. This ad was envisioned as an affordable place for families to vacation year round.

Joe Trippi

Ads like this are the reason that less than half of the voting population in America bothers to go to the polls.

Ads are pretty primitive compared to what can be done with them.

David Remnick

Ads are ads, and I have no problem at all with Target's advertising a lot, all at once, or a page at a time.