David Ogilvy
Related There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can r... HENRY R. LUCE There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can... HENRY R. LUCE JANE AUSTEN OSCAR WILDE If they cannot pick what they see, they write about it and put the note in the pail. JAN WRUCKE Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising... MICHAEL SCHUDSON ALVIN TOFFLER ALVIN TOFFLER ALVIN TOFFLER I cannot write epic but I can write simple and make it epic HARISH D. WATHORE This person wants to write off business expenses before the business is operating, and he cannot do ... BILL STEINER MAURICE SENDAK MAURICE SENDAK COLIN HAYCRAFT ROY AYERS Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women. KRISTIN HERSH RALPH WALDO EMERSON ELIE WIESEL VICTOR HUGO DAVID OGILVY MARGUERITE DURAS CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN ROY AYERS NATHALIE SARRAUTE HELEN HUNT JACKSON GOLDA MEIR GOLDA MEIR ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. PHILLIP ADAMS NICHOLAS BOILEAU DAVID OGILVY Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a ... PETER COCHRANE JOHN DRYDEN Women who marry men they don't love or aren't attracted to, men who are older, unattractive or unlov... GYPSY ROSE LEE It is us in the clinic who see the heartbreak, and we cannot help these people when they are running... SUSAN BEWLEY DAVID OGILVY If women don't like men staring at their chests, they shouldn't write on them. RON BRACKIN NICHOLAS BOILEAU OSCAR WILDE SAMUEL BUTLER (1) AMBROSE BIERCE They are dinosaurs. They live on the back of the IRA, but the IRA are finished, and they cannot gras... JIM ARNOLD Credentials are important, but they aren't the most important thing, ... We've had (applicants) who ... MIKE HARRIS You write a letter of dispute to the credit reporting agency, they have 30 days to investigate the d... JOYCE GIBSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES WILLIAM BARCLAY C.S. LEWIS WILLIAM BLAKE LEO BURNETT KATE FORSYTH JOHN FOWLES JOHN FOWLES Today, men write more than women, but it's on screen. The computer has made men free to write, and t... DAVID BOOTH Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically. LEO BOGART RALPH WALDO EMERSON JOHN FOWLES HOWARD NEMEROV When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to w... EHUD OLMERT CHRISTOPHER LASCH ERNEST HEMINGWAY MURRAY KEMPTON OSCAR WILDE CASSANDRA CLARE They write to me as if I'm one of their friends, one of their buddies. Students write some messages ... DON RICHARDS A decade in advertising exposed me to plenty of schemers and backstabbers. But honestly, advertising... MARCUS SAKEY GEORGE LOIS SUZANNE COLLINS WALTER BENJAMIN MILAN KUNDERA JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find. CAROL SHIELDS DAVID OGILVY CHARLOTTE BRONTE DEYTH BANGER Advertising agencies compete all the time, but they usually do it behind closed doors. JOE CARLUCCI TEJU COLE There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, b... ERNEST THOMPSON SETON If people could write as much as they write on Facebook in one day, they could write books and be pu... VALERIE ROSE STERRETT Search engines are dependent on income from advertising, and for this you need partners and marketin... HERMANN HAVERMANN I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd her... NICHOLAS TRANDAHL There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and th... CYRUS H. K CURTIS There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and tho... CYRUS H. CURTIS There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and thos... CYRUS H. CURTIS F. SCOTT FITZGERALD SOURCE UNKNOWN A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a ... DIRK BENEDICT CHLOE THURLOW I suffer from stage fright, so I blabber on stage and stop midway through my performances. I cannot ... DHANUSH GERMAINE GREER Many people use the newspaper but don't read it. A lot of people are as engaged with the advertising... EARL COX NIKKI GIOVANNI HONORE DE BALZAC JAIME LERNER RAYMOND CHANDLER There are a lot of people who can't write and maybe shouldn't write. SARAH HEPOLA JANE GOODALL IRVINE WELSH CATHERINE THE GREAT You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE GREAT
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. 
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. 
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot... 
The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot... 
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of int... 
You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of in... 
A publisher is a specialized form of bank or building society, catering for customers who cannot cop... 
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. 
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who... 
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. 
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevente... 
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost withou... 
Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country. 
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. The... 
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. 
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. 
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a ... 
Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse. 
When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. 
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write. 
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost withou... 
They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. 
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist... 
She that with poetry is won,
Is but a desk to write upon;
And what men say of her they mean
... 
BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters --the most difficult kind of English verse to write acce... 
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. 
Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot ... 
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn... 
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a ... 
You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engross... 
We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. 
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. 
Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. ... 
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being una... 
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don'... 
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you... 
Each of us lives with a sword over his head.
I work on a word count basis, so I have to write three thousand words a day. I can write them in the... 
All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication cours... 
Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write. 
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method... 
The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV progr... 
When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t... 
When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t... 
I'm just going to write because I cannot help it. 
Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not.... 
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but t... 
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without ad... 
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without ad... 
Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous. 
On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each ... 
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained. 
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exis... 
I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then t... 
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I c... 
We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these thin... 
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when... 
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... 
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals. 
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... 
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... 
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... 
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
I always go for simplicity. 
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. 
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... 
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i... 
People use irony as a defense mechanism. 
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go... 
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? 
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is. 
You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.