Publicity Quotes

“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office—the so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement—is of such importance. In my case the difference is often made by publicity. For example, and to boast of one of my few virtues, I used to derive pleasure from giving my time to bright young people who showed promise as writers and who asked for my help. Then some profile of me quoted someone who disclosed that I liked to do this. Then it became something widely said of me, whereupon it became almost impossible for me to go on doing it, because I started to receive far more requests than I could respond to, let alone satisfy. Perception modifies reality: when I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.”
― Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story

“Public taste is as fickle as a child’s attention span”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“... and you know what the public is, unless they see you all the time they forget that you ever existed.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Theatre

“Publicity is like a drug. You've got to take it in bigger and bigger doses to get any kick out of it.”
― Hulbert Footner, The Murder That Had Everything!

“How many opportunities are missed because someone—the media, a reviewer, event organizer—either found us online and didn’t like what they found, or tried to find us, and couldn’t? You’ll never receive the inquiry that isn’t made.”
― David Wogahn

“Besides being a duck farmer, I'm also a philanthropist. It's like The Bible probably says, "What good is charity, if there is no publicity to produce applause?" I never give to the needy unless I know my donation will receive positive attention in the press.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“There is no such thing as bad publicity.”
― P.T. Barnum

“Since the American Revolution must climb uphill blindfolded in the long Capitalist night, any thing which was publicity became a walking stick.”
― Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History

“Hollywood publicists, whom you're told you must have and who cost around $6000 per month, tell you what you should act like, look like, talk like — how you should respond to the press. They prey on fear and manipulate actors by threatening: 'Oh, the studio will be really upset with you if you don't do this.”
― Rose McGowan, Brave

“Write to your reader. Market to your book buyer.”
― Hajni Blasko

“Those that turn a blind eye to privacy concerns do not lose sight of public scrutiny.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“Part of competition culture is making the proposals public through exhibitions, where they become the object of critical review in a form of worthy emulation of each other. […] The public presentation of architectural projects in competitions via home pages, journals and exhibitions lend communal character to knowledge production.”
― Jonas E Andersson, Architectural Competitions - Histories and Practice

“A heroic woman does not help in pursuit of publicity. She lends a hand because she understands her role in society.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“Public relations is just as much about strategic branding, creating a publicity agenda, and fostering engagement with your target audience as it is about building a notable image.”
― Germany Kent

“When a studio puts you under contract, its publicity department starts turning out news copy about you that you read with astonishment. You think, can this be me they’re talking about? They don’t really manufacture untruths, but they play up whatever makes interesting reading, and then a columnist adds his own little embellishments and another adds to that until there’s a whole body of so called ‘facts’ floating around—almost like another you—that simply isn’t real. It isn’t a lie, but it isn’t real, either.”
― Judy Garland, Judy Garland on Judy Garland: Interviews and Encounters (6)

“Publicity turns consumption into a substitute for democracy. The choice of what one eats (or wears or drives) takes the place of significant political choice. Publicity helps to mask and compensate for all that is undemocratic within society. And it also masks what is happening in the rest of the world.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“The press. I believe that each one is as good as the best in the profession. However, their difficulty is that their job essentially lies in describing the way things go wrong.
Most reporters subconsciously believe that all ministers are nitwits, or ought to be if they're true to type.
Journalists relish the performance of ministers who mess up with wrong answers and cringe for publicity.”
― P.V. Narasimha Rao, The insider

“Men and women who are genius at what they know, understand and do, content to experience the tragedy of going through life as a light placed under a table if you will...a dimmable, hidden, and unknown legend.

The day that special person makes the wisdom decision, to hire another genius skilled to unveil, and strategically hail that cloaked legend...legacy can lay its foundation as a forever cornerstone.”
― Lady Tracey Bond DoubleOHHSeven™

“When my friends suggested that we approach a rich man for patronage, explaining, "Today we need him, later when we are established you can change the pattern. We need publicity, credibility and money. Where else will it come from?" I rejected the advice outright, saying what I have never stopped repeating since, "I will not join the social welfare club. I need no false support, no whitewash and no publicity. I'll build credibility, I'll earn money, I'll labour. I'll live the real thing. For that I need the people, those who need my help. Nothing is for free, everything has a price. I will pay them, they will pay me. The people will create their own welfare service, I will help them create it. From here we go alone. There shall be no pillar to lean on. We shall build supports from within. No compromise shall dilute and plague my work. We will begin from the street, from the beginning, not the top, not the middle, but the very bottom.”
― Tehmina Durrani, Edhi: A Mirror To The Blind

“Even that which is untrue, if accepted as true by the world, especially by the elders, becomes the truth. It is publicity-of a fault or virtue that bears fruit as ill repute or fame. The actual truth may earn its reward in the hereafter, but that is of no use here.”
― Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Kadambari

“Your company is far more fearful of social media than OSHA.”
― Steven Magee

“Create all your marketing content with an Eye for Excellence!”
― Hajni Blasko

“I don’t do publicity, I never will. My entire body of works thrives despite the absolute absence of publicity. I write in silence, I publish in silence, I continue the struggle in silence - in silence and alone. I don't have an industry to back me up - all I have is my dream - the dream of an undivided world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“And I kept screaming, as the cameras kept flashing," [Mamie] wrote, "in one long, explosive moment that would be captured for the morning editions.”
― Timothy B. Tyson, The Blood of Emmett Till

“All publicity is good, except your own obituary.”
― Brendan Behan

“Is it for a private diary or is it for public distribution?

Take the time and apply your patience, discernment and wisdom before posting anything.

What might seem right in the moment, could end up be very wrong in the long run.

Pause before you post.”
― Loren Weisman

“I liked the raise I finally received to twelve hundred a week. Even after all the deductions were taken from my salary it remained more money a week than I had once been able to make in six months. I had clothes, fame, money, a future, all the publicity I could dream of. I even had a few friends. And there was always a romance in the air. But instead of being happy over all these fairytale things that had happened to me I grew depressed and finally desperate. My life suddenly seemed as wrong and unbearable to me as it had in the days of my early despairs.”
― Ben Hecht Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“90 percent of the world's activists would disappear, if there was no camera to broadcast their publicity stunts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology