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Quotes About Crowd

I do not think the crowd affected us, but the position of being in a big time game may well have affected us.
~ Les Miles
I'll play for a couple of hours and then before you know it, it's time to go on stage. It takes away any nervousness and anxiety I might have about the big crowd out there.
~ Lights
Why will people be so stupid as to suppose themselves the only foreigners among a crowd of ten thousand persons?
~ Mark Twain
The crowd swarmed together and followed him at a distance, talking excitedly and asking questions and finding out the facts. Finding out the facts and passing them on to others, with improvements-- improvements which soon enlarged the bowl of wine to a barrel, and made the one bottle hold it all and yet remain empty to the last.
~ Mark Twain
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.
~ Markus Zusak
White light lowered itself into a boxing ring and a crowd stood and murmured--that magical sound of many people talking all at once. How could every person there have so much to say at the same time?
~ Markus Zusak
Las calles de la ciudad estaban llenas de gente, pero la extranjera no se habría sentido más sola de haber estado desiertas.
~ Markus Zusak
The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. On the other side, beyond the blurry heat, it was possible to see the brownshirts and swastikas joining hands. You didn't see people. Only uniforms and signs. Birds above did laps. They circled,somehow attracted to the glow - until they came too close to the heat. Or was it the humans? Certainly, the heat was nothing.
~ Markus Zusak
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it had been empty.
~ Markus Zusak
The crowd did what crowds do. As I made my way through, each person stood and played with the quietness of it. It was a small concoction of disjointed hand movements, muffled sentences, and mute, self-conscious turns
~ Markus Zusak
THE LAST HUMAN STRANGER, PAGE 38 There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it had been empty.
~ Markus Zusak
And while Trish stared - stared, as it now seemed, into her own eyes - Guy held her hand and watched the crowd: how it bled colour from the enormous room and drew all energy towards itself, forming one triumphal being; how it trembled, then burst or came or died, releasing individuality; and how the champion was borne along on its subsidence, his back slapped, his hair tousled, mimed by female hands and laughing, like the god of mobs.
~ Martin Amis
Tod ama le folle. Nelle folle puoi essere un capo senza che nessuno se ne accorga. [...] Con estasi e con sollievo si annulla nell'unità più grande, nella massa incandescente
~ Martin Amis
Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought there were so many in the whole country as were brought together by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they were — straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivid flame-coloured tint.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
CAPTAIN: Try to avoid taking anybody out of a crowd. Just cruise around the way we did before, and take them one at a time. There are all kinds of rumors. We don't want to alarm people.
~ Arthur Miller
The crowd made room for the press respectfully. It knew that without the journalists and photographers the massacre would be erased and the dead would truly die. So the bodies were offered to them, in hope and anger. A banquet of death.
~ Arundhati Roy
well as street vendors crying their wares. The mob had
~ Ashley Gardner
The crowd would have forgiven anything, except a man who could remain normal under the vibrations of its enormous collective sneer.
~ Ayn Rand
The crowd had the plump, righteous, slightly constipated look that seems the exclusive province of businessmen who belong to the GOP.
~ Stephen King
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
~ Louis Aragon
It is faith that moves mountains, not reason. Reason is a tool, but it can never be the motive force of the crowd." This
~ Jonah Goldberg
As Mussolini said in an interview in 1932, "It is faith that moves mountains, not reason. Reason is a tool, but it can never be the motive force of the crowd.
~ Jonah Goldberg
There was all the world and his wife.
~ Jonathan Swift
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
~ Epicurus