Commercial Quotes - page 6

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings. (Martin Filler)
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control. View quote
Martin Filler
There is no bird flu in commercial stocks. View quote
Michael E. Mann
I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on. View quote
Missy Elliott
Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies. View quote
Norm Dicks
We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making. View quote
Peter Bart
If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters. View quote
Robert McChesney
The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention. View quote
Robert McChesney
The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter. View quote
Robert McChesney
Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media? View quote
Robert McChesney
You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right. (Robert McChesney)
Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred. View quote
Robert Toombs
In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction. View quote
Roger Staubach
Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them. View quote
Randy West
It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year. View quote
Richard E. Grant
And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job. View quote
Sela Ward
Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content. View quote
Steve Crocker
Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist. View quote
Sean Lennon
It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw. View quote
Tina Weymouth
I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense. View quote
Tina Weymouth
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. (Tom Glazer)
The 1990 'Goodwill Games' can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts... they will have a higher opinion of cable television and TBS. View quote
Tony Verna
If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three. View quote
Townsend Harris
People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records. View quote
Trace Adkins
What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not. View quote
Tanya Roberts