One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don’t want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone’s throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.

When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a ‘ratchet’ bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp’s mansion.

Bowls have become network-owned, commercial enterprises, in some cases, pitting average teams in money-losing bowls for the benefit of a few.

I love books because I don’t have to wait for the commercials to be over to find out what happens.

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.

I’ve always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

My first job was a commercial for Ball Park Fun Franks.

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear;...

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs that only got five miles to the gallon, floods, union hall fires, darkness...

Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Perhaps the death of us all is called for in this time of emotional desperation. War is a product of the mind; only with the death...

In the commercial theater, I’ve been pretty fortunate. The producers that I’ve worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

Love is the theme of all religions but making it commercial is satanic”.

A radio in a song in an ice cream cone. Two licks for free, and the third is for sale. My favorite flavor tastes like a commercial, because it’s made with 100% natural advertisement.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for...

Tennis is more commercial these days.

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.

I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling...