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  • Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

    Powerful   Yield   Demand  
    Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times.

    "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.
  • There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it.

    Death   Science   Axes  
    Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco
  • Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.

    Running   Crazy   Order  
    Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.188, Simon and Schuster
  • They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

    Age   Dollars   Pay  
  • There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.

    Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.30, Ballantine Books
  • Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next door is all the American male could wish for: unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.

    Love   Girl   Miscarriage  
  • Do you remember what I told you that first time at Taki's? About faerie food?" "I remember you said you ran down Madison Avenue naked with antlers on your head", said Clary, blinking silver drops off her lashes.

    Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.312, Simon and Schuster
  • I did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the first time I broke a barrier that made me think, some idiot is going to blow my brains out for sure.

    Sex   Couple   Thinking  
    "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.
  • My mother and her plans for my future. She had it all worked out. I would attend a nice college, then get a job in advertising. "You'll be one of those smart-looking fellows in their Madison Avenue suits." And I rebelled against [my mother] and her values and her plans for my future at every opportunity.

    Mother   Jobs   Nice  
    Source: reprints.longform.org
  • Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?

    Kids   Boys   Scary  
    "It's a Magical World". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1996.
  • Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.

    Men   Rejection   Clients  
  • There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.

  • If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.

  • Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

    Running   Beer   Bars  
    "If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth". Book by Helen Caldicott, 2009.
  • You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

    Mean   Done   Advertising  
    Dick Gregory (1966). “From the Back of the Bus”
  • I feel more voluntary about my pleasures and pains than the average American who has his needs dictated by Madison Avenue (my projections, of course). I feel sustained, excited, and constantly growing in my spiritual and intellectual pursuits.

  • What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

    Business   Self   Talking  
    Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.12, Open Road Media
  • In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

    Love   Age   Television  
    Michael Palmer (2007). “The Fifth Vial”, p.34, Macmillan
  • Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

  • It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.

    Eggs   Way   Hong Kong  
    Robert Orben (1978). “2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook”, Random House Value Pub
  • As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?

    Passion   Dark   Moon  
  • I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

    Mean   Hands   Ideas  
  • It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

  • As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter's Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.' Van Meter's greatest hits collection of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling of American history. It's like the greatest minds of Madison Avenue sat down to write a history book. They don't make sound bites like they used to!

    Book   Writing   Past  
  • In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.
  • Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.

    "'Unforgettable' Nat King Cole now downloadable" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. February 15, 2011.
  • [Hillary Clinton] spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an advertising - you know, they get Madison Avenue into a room.

    Source: time.com
  • I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

    Beautiful   Art   Moving  
    William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext
  • The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won.

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