Quotes About Hype

Of course I would love to have another track as big as 'Animals,' but 'Animals' became big also because of luck, the timing, and hype.

Rule #5 Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's good.

We live in a world where everything tends to get oversold, then all too often under-delivers. I'd prefer to be known for the opposite.

But make sure you remember this: The people who now claim that the next "sure thing" will be health care, or energy, or real estate, or gold, are no more likely to be right in the end than the hypesters of high tech turned out to be.

I've tried to shut myself off as much as possible from the hype of 'War Horse,' and just thought, 'OK, I'm going to focus on the character and focus on the story and focus on what I have to do.'

I always wait until at least a year after any of the prizes before reading those on the lists which appeal. It is amazing how everything settles down and finds its natural level. Hype never did any reader much good.

I don't think hype always works. It can get you initial audience, but eventually, it's your story, and the characters need to hold audience's attention.

Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.

Other examples of fads are hula hoops, mood rings, flip-up sunglasses, and umbrella-hats.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

the ability to sell, which is usually nothing more than a talent for hype and keeping a straight face as you demand a fifty times markup from potential buyers who wouldn't know a Damien Hirst from a pickled sardine.

These fantasies about the future, based on the past, are the hope and hype we con ourselves with. Even if we get what we always wanted it never looks like we thought it would when it arrives.

If you start to believe the hype about yourself, then you start to lose the bigger picture, and your focus is in the wrong place.

No matter how much wrestling you have watched in your life, you know how big Wrestlemania and how momentous it is. My sister-in-law and her boyfriend aren't die hard WWE fans, but they are fans of Wrestlemania just because of how huge the event is.

Podcasting is not really that different from streaming music, which we've done for quite a long time. Having a traditional podcast that people subscribe to - the hype is ahead of the quality. Podcasting is essentially a download, and you run into copyright issues. What you're left with currently is podcast talk radio.

Every Olympics, they make a big deal out of something - security... traffic... pollution... something - and it really doesn't come true. For me, there's never been a problem.

Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.

We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

Sitcoms are bad in so many ways it's hard to say why. They can hype things as much as they want, but it's all crap, no matter how many TV Guide cover stories there are.

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.