Crowds Quotes

1245 Crowds quotes by 974 unique authors

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support… — Desiderius Erasmus
My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the… — John Fowles
The crowd makes the ballgame. — Ty Cobb
As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and… — Jeremy Collier
As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at… — Frank Moore Colby
I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd. — Paula Poundstone
Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in… — Desmond Morris
Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that… — Thomas Merton
A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers.… — Larry Gelbart
Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators. — Murray Kempton
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as… — Arundhati Roy
In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind,… — Robert M. Lindner
Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away. — Thia Megia
The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd. — Ivor Novello
You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to. — Ivor Novello
Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds. — Kunal Nayyar
I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90%… — Patrice O'Neal
Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill -… — Patrice O'Neal
Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd… — Abbey Lincoln
I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but… — Sally Quinn
Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet. — Steven Rattner
25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically… — Bob Saget
Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something… — Frederick Buechner
You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone. — Frederick Lenz

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