Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

OK Cupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.

— Sam Yagan

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

— David Whyte

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

— Thomas Wolfe

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

— David Ogilvy

Sad to say, negative advertising really works.

— Jerry Della Femina

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

— John Lahr

Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Modest, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'He Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

— Tom Bodett

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

— Fred Allen

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

— Gus Van Sant