Phil Crosby Quotes

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Nothing in Chicago seems to be working the way it’s supposed to.

Sometimes things don't work like they should.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

Everything cannot go right all the time.

Some days, I'm going to miss shots; some days, I'm not.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

I just never count on anything. You can't.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.

It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.

I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in the water to reach for a sea urchin or a sea shell, and the thing desired never quite lies where you had lined it up to be. The same is true of love. In prospect or contemplation, love is where it seems to be. Reach in to lift it out and your hand misses

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.

Many of the things which can never be, often are.

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.