John C. Crosby Quotes
The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Quotes to Explore
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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Suffering is admittedly one of the central problems of human existence; but this is because we have a suspicion that it is all for nothing. If we had a certainty about meaning, the suffering would be bearable. With no certainty of meaning, even comfort begins to feel futile.
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The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Ideas exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws.
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The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
