“Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.”
~David Ogilvy; british advertising tycoon aka “the Father of Advertising” circa 1962.
“Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.”
~Leonard Cohen; canadian singer-songwriter, poet and author.
“Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.”
~Bernard DeVoto; american historian, author and teacher.
“Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.”
~ Charles Bukowski; american writer and philosopher.
“Yes, I’m afraid you’re right. Trial and error isn’t a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft, but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.”
~Daniel Quinn; american philosopher and author.
“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche; german author and philosopher.