C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“Commercial diet plans may help you lose the weight temporarily, but statistically you are guaranteed to be a return customer in one to three years. Why? Because you've learned absolutely nothing about proper diet.”
Source: EAT! Empower Adjust Triumph!
“Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.”
“Commercial fiction writing – where my bread is buttered – is fairly straightforward. The writing is simply efficiency and story. The more you have of one the less you need of the other.”
“Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks.”
“Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”
Source: White Collar: The American Middle Classes
“Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.”
“Commercial lending is a vital component of the financial industry, supporting businesses in achieving their growth and operational goals. Without corporate lenders, the ability and rate at which businesses are able to grow would likely be considerably less.”
“Commercial loans serve various purposes, from financing expansion and working capital to equipment acquisition and real estate investment – They’re a very important part of the capital ecosystem of the world, and of its individual nations.”
“Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.”
“Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.”
“Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't”
“Commercial rap get the gun clap, day after day.”
“Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out.”
“Commercial real estate is a booming business however, whether you are buying or advertising commercial real estate, chances are that you are going to need a bit of assist. A good real estate broker can be priceless to you, and they can provide you with an enormous deal of assist that no one else could ever give to you.”
“Commercial record has never interested me. It's amazing I was in a band like The Police that had such phenomenal commercial success. Part of what made The Police what it was was that we didn't all come in with obvious mainstream musical tastes. We were a rock band and somehow we had to make rock music, but it was informed by a lot of things outside of the mainstream for sure.”
“Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not because merchants are stupid or lack taste. Rather, the problem is that any individual merchant's sign won't be noticed unless it's bigger and more garish than those of rival merchants.”
“Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.”
“Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.”
Source: James Madison's
“Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.”
Source: The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts
“Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.”
“Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the advertising. But that is not the problem of the advertiser.”
“Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.”
Source: Elvis
“Commercial transactions embarrassed Tol. When he had to receive payment from somebody, the feeling would always come over him that it was too much; when he had to give payment, the same feeling would suggest that it was too little. The passage of money seemed to him to discount all else that might pass between people.”
Source: Watch with Me, and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Nee Quinch
“Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.”
“Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.”
Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion
“Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.”
“Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.”
“Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.”
“Commercials are also any opportunity to meet new crew and work with new kind of rigs. You can explore working with different people without having to make the full commitment of having to do an entire feature film with them and see whether you like them. Also it's great for testing out new equipment, like on the last spot we just did, I used a lot of drone technology, really cutting edge drone stuff, more than I've ever done before, and it worked out really really well.”
“Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.”
Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets
“Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health.”
“Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards.”
“Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.”
“Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.”
“Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.”
“Commies love concrete.”
Source: Holidays in Hell
“Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man”
“Commissioner Harris at the far end stared along the mad pathway. This was his first child and it had already become a murderer.”
Source: In the Skin of a Lion
“Commissioner Marlowe stood on the platform with his arms crossed as we disembarked. He had the cheerful demeanor of someone who has been beaten about the face all night with a sock full of porridge--only even more so than usual.”
Source: Beastly Bones
“Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.”
“Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.”
Source: Character
“Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.”
“Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.”
“Commit a tale-teller who is a sluggard to a task and wait for the story and a creative excuse.”
“Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.”
“Commit fully to your sacred cause. Do not hesitate. Do not draw back. Be bold, be powerful. Do not delay. Start now.”
Source: Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason
“Commit no act that is contrary to love.”
“COMMIT. PURGE. REPLENISH.”
Source: The Machine
“Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.”