Billboard Quotations

I was walking down a street and after his death and saw a billboard on the side of a brick wall for Van's shoes. It was a picture of Hopper's face, and all it said was, 'Hopper Lives.' So I think he's still part of youth culture. There are lessons to be learned from Hopper about being a young person who wants to live the art life in America.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

We had just recently moved to California from Italy, and while we were driving around, we saw a billboard ad for McDonald's on Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles. The word 'guess' was in the ad, and my brother decided that that would be the name of our company!

When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.

I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was... well, pretty Hollywood.

Let's put it this way: The billboard exceeds the allowable height and area for an on-premise sign, and there are probably other issues that will keep it from being approved. We'll see what the NCC and Cooper work out, but it'll probably be disapproved if they don't come to an agreement of some kind.

I dealt with some pressure last year with that whole billboard down in New York, ... I know it's a little bit different from the college level to the pro level, but I don't think many college players have seen the kind of scrutiny that came with that billboard. I know how I can perform. I put more pressure on myself than anybody else does.

My program is not critical. It's almost like a billboard for the author's book. I've never presented it as being anything other than that. We get a dialogue going and we get to the point where it is a conversation. Mostly you hear the author and not Jim Foster. That's my goal.

We want to make sure he's not a walking billboard as soon as he gets to the NHL. His priority, and ours, is that he's content, fully energized and has fuel to perform on the ice. He understands it's a business and that it's good for the league and the sport, but at the same time he's human.

The real shock was when somebody would turn into their driveway, so to speak, and their next-door neighbor had a huge billboard on their front lawn.

Don't share info that you wouldn't put on a billboard on a superhighway. We need to remember that whatever you type on the Internet stays on the Internet. It's like a tattoo.

At the Billboard Awards my skirt was so tight they had to lift me on stage.

You are making (Alliance One) look good, ... But you might just be making a billboard for them (gang members).

I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'

I stand behind that record totally, and I always want Madonna to do well, ... but the Mount Everest of ambition for me would be to have a William Orbit record top the charts. If I got an album with my name on it to No. 1 on the Billboard album charts, I would be smoking a cigar.

You have a character who is wearing a scarf on her head on a billboard in LA, New York, Sydney and Melbourne. That's how I would face barriers being thrown at me.

Even though we've stayed very successful it's still been a struggle for our kids. There are times they'd like to get away from it. They joke about not being able to drive down the road without seeing their mom's face on a billboard or seeing her on TV.

Oh, God! To have a billboard in Hollywood - you've made it.

... a little more than six years since Diana Ross has appeared on a Billboard singles chart.

The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some manner. Lichtenstein was a draftsman; I was a billboard painter, but we didn't work together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964.

This award comes at a particularly nice time, as the Heartbreakers and I go into the 30th year of our career, ... I'm very honored that Billboard has acknowledged me with this award.

This award comes at a particularly nice time as the Heartbreakers and I go into the thirtieth year of our career. I'm very honored that Billboard has acknowledged me with this award.

This billboard conveys to the students a disturbing message actively promoting gun violence, criminal behavior and gang affiliation, ... Placement of the billboard in this location at this time is an insensitive and reckless affront to the parents, school administrators and students seeking to improve their community.

This is reading what people put into the public domain, ... If you hire a billboard, and you write what you're saying on the billboard, I don't think it's an invasion of privacy for the FBI driving by to look at the billboard and read it.

Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

I'm not a big self-promoter. I'd prefer to emphasize our club. I don't think that billboard is going to get us any wins come February.

The billboard is a major purchase for the coalition. We hope it will really bring attention to the issue.

The billboard is an effort to dialogue with the Cuban people.

The billboard is an effort to dialogue with the Cuban people. Only in totalitarian societies do governments talk and talk at their people and never listen.

The message to marketers should be clear, and the implications obvious. If your site is not found on the first page or within the first three pages of search results you might as well be putting up a billboard in the woods.

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

They've probably got a billboard up for Sparks already.

And then Lamar -- it's a billboard company. It's all in small markets. Their business has been turning and coming back and it's trading at 15 times free cash flow, ... We think it's worth $20 (per share) and can get taken up between $60 and $70 a share ... You're starting to see the rebound in advertising. The billboard business, for them, continues to be pretty steady and it's rebounding. So, it's more specific for Lamar but the industry is performing better.

It seems to me it's a prudent move by Yahoo. It's one thing to put your billboard up next to the other guys. But this, it seems to me, is different in nature and kind because you're employing search engine technology to guide customers from the Internet to you.

When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.

We go to do the Billboard Music Awards to be a presenter, and we walk on stage, and we get a standing ovation from the industry.

I don't want to see the event become a corporate billboard but if that's the only way it can go on and if it's done tastefully ... it would be appreciated if it's necessary.

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.