Commercialization Quotes (page 7)

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• pretty
• contentment
• country

In most commercial ways we’re a pretty forward country. In these moral ways we’re content to be a pretty backward country. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• integrity
• helpful
• passion

In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face, pronounce, as he donates a collection of archival Coca-Cola commercials to the Library of Congress, that 'Coca-Cola has become an integral part of people's lives by helping to tell these stories,' it is perhaps not surprising that people have trouble teaching and receiving a novel as complex and flawed as Huck Finn, but it is even more urgent that we learn to... George Saunders

• great
• political
• greatness

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. George Washington

• music
• movie
• empty

The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness... Jean Baudrillard

• fly
• never
• commercially

Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story. Guillermo del Toro

• broken
• beer
• goat

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles. Raymond Chandler

• earth
• society
• how

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth? Christopher Hitchens

• mind
• computers
• restaurant

The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape? Neil Gaiman

• good
• management
• time

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful. Ronnie Montrose

• success
• music
• business

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful. Ronnie Montrose

• growth
• effort
• commitment

Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort. Said Musa

• work
• picture
• clever

Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked. Kate Moss

• attention
• means
• attentions

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me. Van Morrison

• game
• commercials
• thing

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game. Van Morrison

• music
• car
• musically

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap. Richard Morris