Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

Rise up oh heart, for there is another battle to win.

I grew up in a family of secrets there was a lot of pathology in the family.

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

After the USA, Germany today is once more the leading steel producing country in the world.

Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.

I think there is no one answer. It is still a struggle, there are tensions and I'm sure there are many people who would like to see these questions laid to rest or cease to be posed altogether.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.