“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Media
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Television
“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.” Continue reading
Gertrude Stein on Information
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” Continue reading
Lyndon B. Johnson on Politics
“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read ‘President Can’t Swim’.” Continue reading
Alfred Hitchcock on Media
“Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.” Continue reading
John Kenneth Galbraith on Thinking
“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” Continue reading
Marlon Brando on Television
“If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.” Continue reading
Bill Cosby on Advertising
“The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.” Continue reading
Hodding Carter on Television
“Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.” Continue reading
Fred Allen on Hollywood
“You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart.” Continue reading
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