Phil Crosby (Philip Bayard "Phil" Crosby) Quotes

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

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• I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Time
  • Night
  • Poetry

• What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Children
  • Fear
  • Tomorrow

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film
  • First
  • Camera

• I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Think
  • Feeling

• Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Belt

• Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Fun
  • Laugh
  • Watch

• If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Reading

• Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Book
  • Week
  • Two

• Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt
  • Ignorance

• Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Love
  • Passion

• Concerning the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Children
  • Science
  • Church

• Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Power
  • Brain

• New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Band

• Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Time
  • War

• I'm a morning bird. I love getting up before it's light out if it's possible. I wake up, I have a black coffee. I'm an 86-year-old man. I try to work out first thing to get it over with. When I do it, I feel good because I have the endorphins all day.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I was a good kid.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Good

• Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

  

  Christopher Love
  • Men
  • Art

• I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman who, the first time we met, said she didn't want somebody in high school. I was 22. Later, I realised that in certain places being female and looking 'young' meant it was more difficult to be taken seriously, so I turned to make-up.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• There's no reason why I can't be a mogul. When I step into a room and I'm there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he's talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Why
  • Business
  • Guy

• If I could be generous and move forward and spread my feelers business-wise and also creatively, that's the best position to put myself in.

  

  Jon Bellion
  • Business
  • Wise

• When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

  

  Phil Crosby
  • Business
  • Quality