Top 100 Crowd Quotes
#1. With their big hit, PiL had reached a whole new generation of fans, and the gig had sold out very fast. But right down at the front were a crowd of about three to four hundred hardcore, old-school punks who had come creeping out of the squats of Camden and Shepherd's Bush to greet their hero. To
Simon Parkes
#2. She clutched her manuscript, carrying it tenderly through the crowd, like a live thing that had been hurt.
Edith Wharton
#3. Because a rebel is just a guy who doesn't have the good sense to go the same way the crowd is going, and the composure to act like that was his idea all along.
Aisha Tyler
#4. When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.
Drake
#5. I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.
Alexander Stoddart
#6. Over the long run, the crowd is always wrong.
Seth Klarman
#7. The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart from the crowd.
Christian Audigier
#8. No, I'm pretty sure no one wants to explain last night's oh-so-fucking-fun events to this stodgy-as-hell crowd, who all look like they took a major pill of stick-up-their-asses.
Scarlett Dawn
#9. The crowd and its team had finally understood that in games, as in many things, the ending, the final score, is only part of what matters. The process, the pleasure, the grain of the game count too.
Thomas Boswell
#10. The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
Vin Scully
#11. The mind is just like a crowd; thoughts are the individuals. And because thoughts are there continuously you think the process is substantial. Drop each individual thought and finally nothing is left. There is no mind as such, only thinking.
Rajneesh
#12. There are so many rappers now that it's cluttering our culture. 90% of the time at a show there are more artists in the crowd than there are fans - it's too much. Too many people try to give you CD's.
Statik Selektah
#13. The bulk of the crowd looked like professors and their wives from Amherst. One of the problems, according to a bushy young radical-talking non-student from Boston, was that you had to pay a "registration fee" of two dollars before you got a vote.
Hunter S. Thompson
#14. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.
Billy Graham
#15. I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you.
Lleyton Hewitt
#16. How do I think different from the Crowd??
I just watch different stuff, different from the crowd this put's me in problems which are different than the crowd Problems!
Deyth Banger
#17. 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
#18. You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
Nathan Fillion
#19. I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.
Brett Dennen
#20. Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things.
Winston S. Churchill
#21. T was a brilliant feeling to make my debut and to hear the crowd chanting my name. It made me play much better.
Theo Walcott
#22. If you're always following the crowd, you will never truly know who you are. Walk your own path.
Julian Pencilliah
#24. I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#25. I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend]
Robert Ludlum
#27. During the Democratic presidential debate Howard Dean started off by apologizing to the crowd for having a cold. Then John Kerry apologized for once having a cold while serving his country in Vietnam.
Conan O'Brien
#29. The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.
Mychal Wynn
#30. I jumped into a crowd full of "u"s they turned into underscores. Hit the pavement hard." visualization words
Antonia Perdu
#31. The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.
Albert Einstein
#32. Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.
Jeff Bezos
#33. Sometimes in the studio movies I've been working in, you'll put a joke in a movie because the crowd loves it - not because I love it.
David Gordon Green
#34. Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.
Charles R. Swindoll
#35. The exposition of Atrocious Torture Instruments could not fail to appeal to a connoisseur of the worst in mankind. But the essence of the worst, the true asafoetida of the human spirit, is not found in the Iron Maiden or the whetted edge; Elemental Ugliness is found in the faces of the crowd.
Thomas Harris
#36. If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.
Robert Pattinson
#37. If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#38. For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.
James Surowiecki
#39. The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown
Simon Hughes
#40. You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers
Horace
#41. So?" Mac says.
I shrug.
"Oh, come on! Don't tell me you didn't feel something? That you didn't enjoy it?"
"It was nice, I guess."
"You guess?" Mac laughs and swipes his hair from his brow. "Tough crowd."
"Yeah, well, I guess you are an acquired taste.
Ashley Mansour
#42. Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Edith Sitwell
#43. Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, That the crowd of physicians had killed him.
Michel De Montaigne
#44. The nights you fight best
are
when all the weapons are pointed
at you,
when all the voices
hurl their insults
while the dream is being
strangled.
the nights you fight best
are
when the game is
fixed,
when the crowd screams
for your
blood.
Charles Bukowski
#45. By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.
Matt Taibbi
#46. His idea was that humans totally lose control of their behavior in a crowd.
Jon Ronson
#47. Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.
Zygmunt Bauman
#48. Writers are not the crowd,they are the voice to the crowd.
Alloy Francis
#49. In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.
Jonathan Carroll
#50. Normal is overrated and experience. Being just like everyone else, getting lost in the crowd is nothing to strive for.
S.L. Naeole
#51. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.
Lord Byron
#52. The most incredible thing about playing the songs live for people - looking out to the crowd and seeing the different reactions and the different heart-strings and the things that people are relating to that mean something to them, that's crazy.
Hayley Williams
#53. Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.
Suzanne Collins
#55. I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
Babe Ruth
#56. If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.
Henry Rollins
#57. There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.
Howard Dean
#58. I want to show girls you don't have to get married and have kids and give up you dreams. You can conquer the world. YOu can play in front of a crowd of 20,000 people, and you can own that shit.
Tegan Quin
#59. Why would you do that?" I asked as he gasped. "Why would you hand me a lever to your pain?" I walked forward, bending the finger down, and he backed before me, into the crowd of his supporters, crying out, bowing low to lessen the sharp angle at which I held the digit.
Mark Lawrence
#60. A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd.
Victor Hugo
#61. We've all been there, onstage. You say something you don't mean, you make fun of something on accident but ... This wasn't that. This wasn't crowd work. This was a rehearsed set. This was pointed.
Iliza Shlesinger
#62. Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory ...
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
#63. I have to show who I am, play with the crowd, play with the camera. When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation, "What is he going to do?"
Usain Bolt
#64. I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
Sam Claflin
#65. There was something about the star, rising above the stable, that still pulled a crowd in from the fields.
Chris Cleave
#66. The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight and so called the battle vulgar; he was vain, and since his fellows would not take him at his own estimate, consoled himself with despising his fellows.
W. Somerset Maugham
#67. Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.
Robin Sharma
#68. 4. You hear his voice in a crowd more than any other.
Bisco Hatori
#69. Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
Fuxi
#70. We are all alone in this world; even in a crowd.
Kenneth Eade
#71. Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavour.
Margaret Atwood
#72. Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set.
Israelmore Ayivor
#73. I stormed into the chapel like an angry thunder waiting to release its emotional terror upon the crowd.
Ramona Matta
#74. I got this to say. you are acting like a crowd of kids.
William Golding
#75. The larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
Soren Kierkegaard
#76. You might be feeling sick or a little down, but the second you hit the stage and hear the crowd, you're ready to perform. That's what a true performer is.
Mark McGrath
#77. He knew well the singularly strange sensation of loving one's family to distraction, and yet not feeling quite able to share one's deepest and most intractable fears. It brought on an uncanny sense of isolation, of being remarkably alone in a loud and loving crowd.
-Anthony's thoughts
Julia Quinn
#78. The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
Charles Bukowski
#79. I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon.
Joe Strummer
#80. I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.
Tim Tebow
#81. People without hope are a dangerous crowd, even in a republic.
Joe Abercrombie
#82. No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
Moliere
#83. If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
Sylvester Stallone
#84. You make people happy. When you're in front of a crowd, nobody can think about their problems or their worries or anything else. You have a gift, Kes, an amazing wonderful gift. It's special, just like you.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#85. The CASTE represents the highest degree of organisation of which the crowd is susceptible.
Gustave Le Bon
#86. Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.
Voltaire
#87. I was aware that I had been looking for him on every street, in every crowd.
Hanya Yanagihara
#88. Schopenhauer has a metaphor for human closeness. He writes about cold porcupines who have to snuggle up to keep warm, but if they snuggle too close they stab each other with their quills. A crowd of porcupines is constantly, uncomfortably assessing the safety of proximity.
Brenda Walker
#89. To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that crowd. And in the background you hear the band play, 'Oh, that's my favorite song!' everyone is there to enjoy the afternoon and that's about it.
Tom Araya
#90. Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
Jim Rohn
#91. I wished i were seven feet tall. I'd hop up there and attack ol' Samson while the crowd went wild. I'd whip him good, send him flying, and become the biggest hero in Black Oak. But, for now, I could only boo him.
John Grisham
#92. When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.
John French Sloan
#93. She enetered the room and the entire crowd stopped, who was she? even in a million moons; you will never understand her, for she is to mysterious to presume and too wise to share her light to everyone. I wanted to love her, but i could tell, i wasnt the only one.
Nikki Rowe
#94. When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.
Steve Coogan
#95. It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
Florence Welch
#96. I wonder if people really know what the definition of crowd-funding is. Or, if there's even an agreed upon definition of what it is.
Perry Chen
#97. Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
Orison Swett Marden
#98. Don't go the distance trying to fit in the crowd and be accepted by others. Accept and respect yourself first. Loving thyself also goes with this.-Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#99. Brooke Watson was the most beautiful girl in school, and she was my age, and she lived two houses down from me, and I could pick out her scent in a massive crowd.
Dan Wells
#100. I have a sixth sense for casting. I just have to see and talk to the actors. I never make tests. I like to work with crowds. I like to get the principals in a crowd. When they do, something else comes off, something special.
Frank Capra
