Phil Crosby (Philip Bayard "Phil" Crosby) Quotes

Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.

Phil Crosby

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• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • You
  • Know
  • Deserve

• My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Women
  • Goal

• CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Real
  • Car
  • Doing

• When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Kids
  • You
  • Mom

• Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Lost
  • Problem
  • Crazy

• I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Lady

• We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Compliments

• When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Dead
  • Politician

• My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Language

• One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Words

• Making a book is such a big enterprise.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Book
  • Big
  • Enterprise

• No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Great
  • Moment
  • Loss

• I'm someone that never likes to overpower the girls in hair and makeup.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Hair
  • Never
  • Makeup

• I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Desire
  • Religion

• I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

  

  Mae West

• 'Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print;A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Book

• Someone once said that Nirvana attracted everybody that had ever been through a broken home... my niche is a lot more specific: It's a lot of females, and a lot of gay guys, and a few advanced and evolved heterosexual men-not many, but there's a few out there.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Men
  • Home
  • Gay

• The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • People
  • Health

• We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Live
  • American
  • Society

• Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Great
  • Money
  • Future

• I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion. She also says, 'Make sure you always smile - it makes everything look better!'

  

  Amber Le Bon
  • Great
  • She
  • Age

• Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.

  

  Phil Crosby
  • Money
  • Quality
  • Gift