Commercial Quotes - page 24

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. (Leonard Bernstein)
I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music. View quote
Vangelis
To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business. View quote
Cicero
My father was haunted. He was bad at conjuring small talk, he watched very little TV, because once Conscious, every commercial, every program must be strip-mined for its deeper meaning, until it lays bare its role in this sinister American plot. View quote
Ta-Nehisi Coates
In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops. View quote
Giorgio Armani
The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor, essentially evocative of legal claims and arguments. Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention; and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at. View quote
Simone Weil
The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. View quote
Ai Weiwei
During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan. View quote
Hideki Tōjō
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it. View quote
Steve Martin
There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial. View quote
John McLauglin
A proceeding may be perfectly legal and may yet be opposed to sound commercial principles. (Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley)
We will indulge in all those miscellaneous commercial operations, which when conducted on a small scale are called thieving, but a large scale, financing. View quote
Henry Savile Clarke
I started working around eigth grade. I remember doing a Doritos commercial where there were four days in a row of eating them, and I will tell you, I have not eaten many Doritos since. View quote
Tobey Maguire
We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Hillary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. View quote
James Comey
I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect. View quote
Amy Lee
Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial. View quote
Diego Maradona
So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck. View quote
Raymond Chandler
I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes. View quote
Dolly Parton
The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music. (Iggy Pop)
Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else. View quote
Lloyd Kaufman
I think I'm commercial underground. I'm not commercial in the way that people consider 'pop,' but I'm not underground in the way that people consider that. either. I am just a cool guy. View quote
Tiësto
I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again. View quote
Tracy Chapman
When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns. View quote
J. J. Abrams