It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
Gavin Rossdale

It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.
John Frankenheimer

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
John Buchanan Robinson

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
Garry Trudeau

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Ludwig von Mises

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
Malcolm Fraser

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
Ikue Mori

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.
Norm Dicks

Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so.
Ann Macbeth

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.
Corey Feldman

My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.
Casey Kasem

My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls...one of those.
Hailee Steinfeld

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.
Auguste Lumiere

My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.
Christian Slater

Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully it can make it more of an interesting product.
Mark Roberts

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
Lawrence Lessig

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.
Leonard Baskin

Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.
Said Musa

Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.
Norm Dicks

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.
Daniel Nathans