This comes from Mike Gonzalez at the Daily Signal: [ Howard] Zinn's history "set the stage for the grievance mongering that passes for history classes today, and is still widely used. It has sold over 2 million copies since it was first published in 1980 and continues to sell over 100,000 copies a year because it is required reading at many of our high schools and colleges. That's a lot of young minds. "
How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art form should be dictated and controlled by men whose training and instincts are cut of an entirely different cloth. The fact remains that these gentlemen sell consumer goods, not an art form.
Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays.
Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]. . . fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.
I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy something, they first have to make them feel bad about who they are in order to sell them that thing which will make them whole again, and happy again.
They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.
As a consumer of culture, I like a wide range of emotions to be touched in art. It's funny but on the other side of it, I do feel that people that are trying to sell culture would like to see a narrower range of expression from their content-makers. Easier to sell I guess.
It is far more difficult. . . to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.
God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.
Tony Abbott would do anything but sell his arse
I don't need shoes. I need a night scope. You think they sell night scopes someplace here?
Ugliness does not sell.
Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company. . . The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says the Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.
People only buy when they're ready to buy. Not when you're ready to sell