(434 quotes found)
“Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We must encourage the commercialization of technologies that are compatible with existing infrastructure. What makes plug-in hybrids promising is that they are; we don't need a Manhattan Project to make this happen.”
James Woolsey
“Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.”
Ernest A. Jones
“The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.”
Orson Welles
“Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.”
John O'Toole
“I've never written with the intention of writing hits. I guess I'm a commercial writer, though. My songs do tend to come out two verses, bridge, guitar solo, last verse, and tag. When I've finished a piece I do have my opinion about whether it will sell, of course, but I'm not always right.”
Christine McVie
“Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.”
Iggy Pop
“It's kinda like a toothpaste commercial, but there's no product.”
Neil Young
“When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.”
Arthur Miller
“Another aspect of this is there are plenty of films and commercials that production companies are filming in zero gravity, so there's even more opportunity there. We want this to happen.”
Rob Varley
