Crowded House Quotes

#1. The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

Laozi

#2. O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

Phoebe Cary

#3. I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

Abraham A. Ribicoff

#4. We've been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M.

Vonda Shepard

#5. The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from hand to hand were of that sort.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. If you're in business, and you don't understand how that word of mouth works, you won't be able to take full advantage of it, how to get full adoption by getting that network to talk about you.

Robert Scoble

#7. It's been a dream to play in the NFL and hopefully after next year that becomes a reality, but I wouldn't pass up being here with my teammates and coaches for anything.

Denard Robinson

#8. When the fishmongers are all buying at the same price, you can bet they were all drinking at the same inn last night.

Robert Jordan

#9. If you phone a psychic and she doesn't answer the phone before it rings, hang up.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#10. I'd yearned for the darkness and repose of Hobie's house, its crowded rooms and old-wood smell, tea leaves and tobacco smoke, bowls of oranges on the sideboard and candlesticks scalloped with puddled beeswax.

Donna Tartt

#11. I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded.

Sylvia Plath

#12. R.E.M.'s 'Automatic for the People' - that's probably one of my favourite records - Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' - that's some record - Crowded House's 'Together Alone' - that's brilliant, fantastic record.

Jamie Lawson

#13. She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.

Carson McCullers

#14. I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

Alannah Myles

#15. If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

Gail Collins

#16. If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

Tim Lebbon

#17. As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.

Zakk Wylde