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Quotes About Crowd

A crowd of persons came in as soon as my office was opened. Among them were several ladies who called to pay their respects. None who called had any business of more importance than an ardent desire to serve their country, provided they could be appointed to a good office. As I has none of these to dispose of, they were, of course, disappointed.
~ James K. Polk
The good thing about playing at home is that the crowd makes you feel that, sooner or later, you can win the game. We feel it on the pitch.
~ Sergio Ramos
For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended.
~ Dave Attell
We'll go to South America and play to 60,000. It's insane.
~ Mike McCready
I think South Korea was one of the best shows I've ever done in my whole life. The people there were crazy. It was literally Beatlemania.
~ Jens Lekman
I don't travel that much with my band Los Pacaminos as it's quite a big crowd, but we got invited down to southern Italy once.
~ Paul Young
Having been ripped open and drained by the crowd When I enter my home, Many homes seem to be waiting for me to give a shape to this life which is about to perish.
~ Suman Pokhrel
I love you the way a knife loves a heart, the way a bomb loves a crowd, the way your mother warned you about, essentially.
~ E. Horne and J. Comeau
There is something like a switch in us that kills the individual in favor of the collective when people engage in communal dances, mass riots, or war. Your mood is now that of the herd. You are part of what Elias Canetti calls the rhythmic and throbbing crowd
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To grasp the difference between Universal and Particular, consider that some dress better to impress a single, specific person than an entire crowd.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It was a circumstance to be noted on the summer morning when our story begins its course, that the women, of whom there were several in the crowd, appeared to take a peculiar interest in whatever
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
They stood, as it were, in an utter solitude, which would be made none the less solitary by the densest throng of human life.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It's him!" "He's so handsome!" "He's so scary!" "He's so well-groomed!" Goddard took a moment to turn to the crowd and sweep his hand in a royal wave.
~ Neal Shusterman
Multitude, solitude: identical terms, and interchangeable by the active and fertile poet. The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd.
~ Charles Baudelaire
You can't overestimate the stupidity of the general public.
~ Charles Bukowski
get me in a room with more than 3 people I tend to act ill odd.
~ Charles Bukowski
I don't think I was insane but many of the insane think that but i think now if anything saved me it was the avoidance of the crowd
~ Charles Bukowski
still, I'm lucky: I feast on solitude, I will never miss the crowd. I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. I sit in bed and wait for the whole thing to go one way or the other. just like everybody else.
~ Charles Bukowski
Attenti a quelli che cercano continuamente la folla, da soli non sono nessuno.
~ Charles Bukowski
The most iconic applause I've ever seen is from a Michael Jackson show in Japan - his entrance is actually 15 minutes long, and the crowd is clapping the whole time.
~ Slowthai
They have barricades at our gigs - to keep people in. We do most of the songs from 'Scrubs' over 55 minutes.
~ Sam Lloyd
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
~ D. H. Lawrence
For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.
~ Lenny Kravitz