Quotes and Sayings About Crowds
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I guess they have had 16 years when they haven't even been close in an Ashes series but we have found some sections of the crowd to be scathing and harsh. That has not been overly enjoyable. We have seen a pretty ugly side in some supporters.
-- Adam Gilchrist -
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
-- Adelbert von Chamisso -
The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.
-- Afrojack -
If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
-- Al Franken -
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
-- Alain de Botton -
I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
-- Alan Garner -
I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.
-- Albert Camus -
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
-- Alcuin -
I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.
-- Alexander Stoddart -
For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.
-- Alexandra Potter -
Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
-- Alice Cary -
A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.
-- Allen Carr -
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.
-- Andre Breton -
The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
-- Andre Breton -
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.
-- Andre Breton -
Here’s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.
-- Andy Murray -
Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.
-- Anita Loos -
I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd, 'cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud.
-- Anna Nalick -
I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldnt trade it for the world.
-- Anna Paquin -
I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.
-- Annie Lennox -
The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.
-- Ariana Franklin -
Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experience into those particular regions and to leave the others to themselves. We seek out those parts that are known and familiar and avoid those that are unknown and unfamiliar. This is simply what is called 'Applied Science.'
-- Arthur David Ritchie -
Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.
-- B. F. Skinner