Ramadan makes you closer to God.
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.
I'm hard-nosed about luck. . . If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.
Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising.
Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
The Creative Revolution is over. Everybody is justholding onto their jobs and no one is ever going to say toa client. . . ‘Buy this or I’ll resign your account. ’ You don’tdo it anymore. It’s now, the majority of the time. . . ‘How do you like it? When can I change it for you?’
What really matters is getting new people in. The constitutional changes matter, but the thing that the party mustn't do is turn in on itself and think the thing we've got to do is fix our plumbing. The thing we've got to do is get new people in.
Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.
Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.
If the American taxpayer knew how much they paid per person to put Neil Armstrong on the moon they would never have paid it. It was hidden from them deliberately because the costs were astronomical.