Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. – Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown’s Book of Politic
And there is no question but that you can’t sustain a mood, a dramatic mood of any particular kind, when at the end of the climactic moment of the scene, out come a couple of dancing rabbits with toilet paper. – Rod Serling, quoted in Teaching Literature to Adolescents: Plays by Alan B. Howe