Famous Quotes & Sayings

Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.

I'm always pretty overworked with commercial illustration or design or animation.

Susan Isaacs

I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.

Bethany Mota

YouTube videos, they're more personal and more real than a commercial on TV.

Virginia Postrel

Storage problems make neon signs the most ephemeral of commercial arts.

Victor LaValle

Shirley Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.

In 1990, Paul Smith and I decided that conducting polymers as materials had developed to a level of maturity that commercial products were possible. With this as a goal, we founded UNLAX Corporation.

Matt Mullenweg

We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences and that it's possible to have a successful commercial entity and a wider free software community living and working in harmony.

Rather than going through a commercial banking training program, at the first bank I ever worked in, I was the chairman. And it was my own money, so we loaned it out like it was my own money.

Stephen Hawking

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.

Ian Ziering

My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.

Nick Harkaway

We need to differentiate between commercial piracy - where criminal organisations produce illicit DVDs on a huge scale - and domestic, unauthorised filesharing, which may or may not be detrimental to overall sales.

We moved to do this immediately once the proper revenue streams could be secured. We have strong revenue streams for our embedded and mobile browsers. We will also create revenues from search, like other commercial browsers.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

When you're starting out, every line in a show or a commercial is like a huge success.

Garry Trudeau

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

William Perry

There are a lot of military and commercial interests in this technology.

Dianne Feinstein

We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use. You can see drones some day hovering over the homes of Hollywood luminaries, violating privacy. This question has to be addressed. And we need rules of operation on the border, by police, by commercial use, and also by military and intelligence use.

Adlai Stevenson

With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?

Blake Lively

After my first year on 'Gossip Girl,' everybody said, 'You've got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.'

This should not be going on. With all the needs in our city, they are spending precious dollars on a party. This is a commercial holiday. It provides sales for vendors, but it will not provide the jobs we need.

We always try to look three to five years out in the decisions we make and there's no question that the Cisco brand, our opportunity in the commercial market and the evolution of our leaders are going to take us to the next level.

We love commercial fleet sales (to corporations). They're profitable, and we're not looking to decrease those.

Jeff Davis

There is a cyclical shift going on. Deposit growth is slowing, while commercial lending grows, led by real estate. Consumer lending is slowing, which I think is good because consumers have been spending like drunk sailors.

We thought it would be better suited for commercial use, with everything going on in Market Square and the need to try and develop the critical mass of retail in the village center.

We think the industry has made a problem for itself by focusing too much on getting technology out the door and getting it to the government. We made a conscious decision early on to focus on creating a viable commercial product.

We would be surprised if there were impacts to foreign commercial entities leasing terminals in the U.S. because of their successful track record.

There are seals and packaging which indicate that there was commercial trafficking going on.

Chris Pratt

I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I've decided to quit acting. I will not be auditioning for anything anymore, and if I get offered something like a role in a movie or a commercial or something, I will graciously turn it down. It's been great, but its just not for me anymore.

Elisha Gray

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.

Stephen Marley

When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.

First and foremost, this is a competitive trip and not a commercial trip.

The government is taking SOA seriously. We have been for two years. There seems to be a serious convergence of ideas and commercial momentum.