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Quotes About Crowd

But when I reach the edge of the crowd gathered for the ceremony, I understand what has really drawn me here. Li Wei.
~ Richelle Mead
The crowd groaned. "Nice job doofus!" Finn said.
~ Ridley Pearson
Before departing Independence, she selected a stage name: Vivian Vance. She borrowed the moniker from Vance Randolph, a member of the local theater crowd.
~ Rob Edelman
bitch power is the juice, the sweat, the blood that keeps pop music going. Rick James helped me understand the lesson of the eighth-grade dance: Bitch power rules the world. If the girls don't like the music, they sit down and stop the show. You gotta have a crowd if you wanna have a show. And the girls are the show. We're talking absolute monarchy, with no rules of succession. Bitch power. She must be obeyed. She must be feared.
~ Rob Sheffield
Some twenty-five thousand people toiled up the mountainside to pay their respects. Three thousand automobiles (which included some Sells-Floto circus wagons) also climbed the mountain that day, not without
~ Robert A. Carter
Although it had been announced that the coffin would not be opened, it was, at Mrs. Cody's order. For two hours the crowd filed by, two abreast, parents holding their children shoulder high. The ceremonies were in the charge of Golden City Lodge No. 1, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, acting for the North Platte lodge of which Cody had been a member. The Masonic burial ritual was read, as was an original poem dedicated to the scout by A. F. Beeler.
~ Robert A. Carter
frequently the crowd is mistaken because they are not acting on the basis of any superior information but are reacting, themselves, to the principle of social proof.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
when we are uncertain, we are willing to place an enormous amount of trust in the collective knowledge of the crowd.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
quite frequently the crowd is mistaken because they are not acting on the basis of any superior information but are reacting, themselves, to the principle of social proof.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
The hotel balconies were mobbed. The beach was mobbed. A thousand heads and lenses swiveled in the same direction. Estimates later put the crowd in and around the Cape at nearly two million. According to police reports, more than a hundred wallets were lifted that night. There were two fatal stabbings, fifteen attempted assaults, and one premature labor. (The child, a four-pound girl, was delivered on a trestle table at the International House of Pancakes in Cocoa Beach.)
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Turk tried to study the crowd of Fourths, but the light was behind them and they weren't much more than silhouettes.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
If one person stops to see your beggarman laying bricks in the street, more will do the same. They will gather like dust bunnies. Then, given a gentle push, they will enter your museum or watch your show. To create a crowd you have to do something different and odd. Any kind of curiosity will serve the purpose, for crowds are magnetically attracted by the unusual and inexplicable.
~ Robert Greene
rising up starkly over the snowy plain, and that the plebs were flocking out
~ Robert Harris
A sex scandal will always draw a crowd, but a sex scandal involving the ruling classes is titillating beyond measure.
~ Robert Harris
in the market, it is usually the crowd that shows up late that is slaughtered. If a great deal is on the front page, it's too late in most instances.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
stopped what they were doing and ran out of doors to stare. The news spread from the prison as fast
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.
~ Edward Carpenter
When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome 50 000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.
~ Dhani Harrison
I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.
~ Dierks Bentley
o que era bom ficou para trás, muito para trás, e ele passou adiante, sem dar por isso. Ah, é demasiado tarde para voltar; atrás dele aumento o fragor da multidão que o segue, impelida pela mesma ilusão, mas ainda invisível na branca estrada deserta.
~ Dino Buzzati
It is preferable that the wise man should set up his residence there where the crowd of imbeciles and fools it is the largest
~ Dio Chrysostom
A quién de los dos quieren que les suelte? respondieron ellos: A Barrabás. 22 Les replicó Pilato: Pues ¿qué he de hacer de Jesús, llamado el Cristo? 23 Dicen todos: Sea crucificado. Y el presidente: Pero ¿qué mal ha hecho? Mas ellos comenzaron a gritar más, diciendo: Sea crucificado. 24
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
~ Douglas MacArthur