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Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.
Jerry Adler— 1993 On the opening of the Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In Newsweek,12 Apr.
Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.
— 1942 Good Intentions,'Lather AsYou Go'.
Apparently we’re now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat us up down to our toes if it happened in real life, and we don’t think anything of it.
max barry— October 16, 2005 weblog post[1]
I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender
jackson browne— The Pretender (1976)
A justices tenir et à droitures soies loiaus et roides à tes sougiez, sans tourner à destre ne à senestre, mais adès à droit, et soustien la querelle dou povre jeusques à tant que la verités soit desclairie.
louis ix of france— In order to deal justly and equitably with your subjects, be straightforward and firm, turning neither to the right hand nor to the left, but always following what is just, and upholding the cause of the poor till the truth be made clear.
— Page 348. [3]
— To his successor Philippe.
The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
kate clinton— Extreme Makeover
Will we ever again be able to view a public object with civic dignity, unencumbered by commercial messages? Must city buses be fully painted as movable ads, lampposts smothered, taxis festooned, even seats in concert halls sold one by one to donors and embellished in perpetuity with their names on silver plaques?
stephen jay gould— "The Lying Stones of Marrakech", p. 25
Darl said, "So we will make a lot of money with tiny internet ads, like in the back of newspapers, and down at the bottom of web pages and one of those small blocks that says 'powered by Pointserve.' He changed our business model, tiny ads did not work, he left after about 8 months, and we went back to our original business model, and he went to SCO."
darl mcbride— Pointserve Employee
I want to thank all the right-wing organizations out there who tried to stop the film, either from their harassment campaign that didn't work on the theatre owners, or going to the FEC to get our ads removed from television, to all the things that have been said on television. It's only encouraged more people to go and see it. We are happy to announce that the efforts of the small-minded few have failed miserably.
Michael Moore— On the movie Fahrenheit 9/11 breaking box office records. —
From any cross-section of ads, the general advertiser's attitude would seem to be: if you are a lousy, smelly, idle, underpriveleged and oversexed status-seeking neurotic moron, give me your money.
— Kenneth Bromfield in Advertiser's Weekly, 1962
The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
— Extreme Makeover (The Progressive, Unplugged)
ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
Marshall McLuhan— Commonweal, Volume 58, Commonweal Publishing Corporation, 1953, p. 557
ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
— Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), Culture Is Our Business (1970)
