David Ogilvy Quotes

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

David Ogilvy

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• God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Universe
  • Language

• It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Healthy
  • Three
  • Big

• I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Man
  • Best

• You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

  

  Sai Baba
  • Water
  • Sun
  • Sky

• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Great
  • Training

• People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• It's wrong to say that there is no performance in a glamorous role. Even a glam role takes in a lot of effort. There is a fine line between being glamorous and being vulgar; you have to feel comfortable in what you wear.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Effort
  • Feel
  • Performance

• Money and good life had never been my goal.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Remember
  • Church
  • Week

• I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Lost
  • Audiences
  • Recovered

• People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Politics
  • Need

• I'll never have to write my memoirs now after reading this. She had six husbands, at least six lovers - why, my life is so dull compared to hers! I've had one husband, one daughter, one house and no lovers.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Life
  • Why
  • She

• The suggestion was that a positive energy proof for general relativity could be gotten by restricting supergravity to its bosonic sector, which is general relativity.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Energy
  • Positive

• Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop. People do come up to you so often and say hello, or want a photograph, and I just can't do it anymore in what I used to wear. They don't want to be seen hanging off a rabid old granny any more than I do.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • People
  • Up
  • Stop

• I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me.

  

  Clare Balding
  • World

• I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.

  

  Eileen Myles

• This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

  

  Brian Swimme
  • Humans
  • Discovery
  • Giraffes

• I'm working hard and I think I'm where I should be at by now but I'm in no hurry at all, I'm taking one fight at a time, I want to win my fights. With the title shot I don't know yet but if I get the chance someday, I will be more than ready.

  

  Alexander Gustafsson
  • Chance
  • Fight
  • Ready

• Consider why the quality of school dinners is declining, even as more and more golf courses are opened.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • School
  • Why
  • Quality

• The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.

  

  Carl F. H. Henry
  • Responsibility
  • Secret
  • Ability

• I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain people.

  

  Loni Love
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

  

  David Ogilvy