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Quotes About Crowd

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
She sat so straight, such a good back, such a proper back, a back you would trust in any crowd, and there was her hand—a different animal entirely—scuttling off down, a tiny crab with its friend the snake, gone stealing little florets of cauliflowers. Sol Myer started giggling. You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.
~ Peter Carey
I felt a sense of brotherhood with anybody who peddled stories... A crowd had gathered around one man who sold pamphlets. He was in his early twenties, and you could tell from his appearance - dark skin, dirty collar, cheap blue suit - that he was a migrant. But he spoke beautifully, holding the crowd with his words... He sold pamphlets not because he needed to, but because the pamphlets deserved to be sold.
~ Peter Hessler
In stage four, once again they're crowded around me—but this time it's to tell me what stocks I should buy. Even the dentist has three or four tips, and in the next few days I look up his recommendations in the newspaper and they've all gone up. When the neighbors tell me what to buy and then I wish I had taken their advice, it's a sure sign that the market has reached a top and is due for a tumble.
~ Peter Lynch
In any crowd there is a malcontent or two, and the Easter crowd is no exception. Someone invariably demands I speak out against the Easter Bunny. I am captivated by a great number of subjects, but have never worked up the enthusiasm to preach against rabbits, real or mythic. These are the same people who complain about Santa at Christmas and want me to take a swipe at Halloween.
~ Philip Gulley
Why are there so many people out here?' Boomer asked as we bobbed and weaved roughly forward. 'Christmas shopping.' I explained. 'Already? Isn't it early to returning things?' I really had no sense of how his mind worked.
~ David Levithan
The tune here is an old-fashioned town-crowd melody--kind of like how the people from the town in The Music Man might sound if Harold Hill had brought an infant homosexual to town instead of wind instruments.
~ David Levithan
At noon a huge crowd of retarded people came to visit Santa and passed me on my little island. These people were profoundly retarded. They were rolling their eyes and wagging their tongues and staggering toward Santa. It was a large group of retarded people and after watching them for a few minutes I could not begin to guess where the retarded people ended and the regular New Yorkers began. Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.
~ David Sedaris
there'd be a lot of people there and he didn't like people, especially when they came in "lots.
~ David Sosnowski
The multitude of the curious and the offended descends upon him.
~ Yann Martel
Hey! 'Hey!' But there was no name to put on the end of Hey and a six foot two black man shouting Hey in a dense crowd does not create easiness wherever he goes.
~ Zadie Smith
With that they, and many others, left the hall and joined the moving crowd in the street. The night was delightfully cool. Stars shone white in a velvet sky. The dry wind from mountain and desert blew in their faces. Pan
~ Zane Grey
Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.
~ zusak markus
Those of us who play in big teams are already accustomed to the pressure of the crowd.
~ Hulk
It is tough enough playing the best players in the world, but to have the crowd on your back as well is extra pressure, but I seem to be dealing with it alright.
~ Gerwyn Price
Anytime you come to a short track you want to see a great race.
~ Kyle Busch
I prefer audiences away from London because they're more appreciative.
~ Sean Lock
In an arena, with Girls Aloud, it's a big production and you don't have time to talk to the crowd about the songs.
~ Nicola Roberts
With WWE, you're live every single week. You're in an arena, and there can be anywhere from 12,000 to 20,000 people watching you perform.
~ Christian Cage
I love playing arenas; it's the best thing.
~ Tobias Forge
I've done arenas, and sometimes it feels like you're the only one in the room.
~ Blackbear
Sometimes in the arenas it's hard to really feel that human connection just because you are so removed and so much further away from the crowd.
~ Carly Pearce
But I was always able to articulate a point and I've always been able to get up in front of a crowd and speak.
~ Mark Schlereth
Egész Párizs odagy?lik hozzá, ahogy a cs?cselék lepi el a Grève teret, ha kivégzés készül. Azért mennek oda, hogy lássák, tudja-e leplezni fájdalmát ez az asszony, tud-e szépen meghalni. Nem rémes?
~ Honore de Balzac