Quotes About Crowds

#1. The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

Confucius

#2. We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

Julian Fellowes

#3. I'm the guy that stands out in all the crowds, so I don't get out there and dance, but I can dance.

Tracy McGrady

#4. Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 degrees in the desert of Arizona or below freezing in the snow of Wisconsin.

Mark McKinnon

#5. You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#6. If you can't draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall

Ben Folds

#7. I love being in an arena that has like 10,000 people and huge crowds. I want to do a show at like the Viper room so badly. Like go up on stage and thrash myself around, go jump into the crowd. You can effing swear, get drunk on stage and do whatever you want basically.

Avril Lavigne

#8. Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

Charles Baudelaire

#9. Better to suffer the loneliness of the cold throne room than endure the isolation to be found within the crowds of facile courtiers.

Stuart Hill

#10. Sometimes I still don't know if I'm prepared to go through the entire season, dealing with the different personalities, the crowds, the politics.

Lamar Odom

#11. No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

Albert Camus

#12. There are very few comics that understand about exciting the crowd, and that's what I always prided myself on: giving a more confident macho attitude towards delivering material.

Andrew Dice Clay

#13. In one of the greatest invitations ever offered to man, Christ stood up amid the crowds in Jerusalem and said, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever

John Eldredge

#14. I enjoy the crowds. It's not that hard to talk to them, to have fun with them.

Boo Weekley

#15. I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Samuel Johnson

#16. Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.

Tom McGurk

#17. The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship.

Frances J Roberts

#18. Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too ...

Kurt Vonnegut

#19. Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

E.W. Howe

#20. But who I was, who you loved, no longer exists. I have passed on. In your world, only my memory can exist. Your loyalty to me because of that memory is a part of life, but it can become disloyalty to yourself if you hold it so closely that it crowds out the rest of life.

Terry Goodkind

#21. Usually when the opposing team does well, the crowd quiets down. All I began to hear was a chant 'L-S-U, L-S-U.' It got louder and louder and louder. It was the loudest I've ever heard a stadium.

Mark Richt

#22. I am scared of spiders! And I still get a little afraid every time I have to do something new or have to get out in front of a big crowd. The first time I sang "Swag It Out" live, I was really scared.

Zendaya

#23. I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

Bill Wyman

#24. Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books

Walter Isaacson

#25. If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

Gary Lineker

#26. Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.

Kunal Nayyar

#27. Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#28. Maybe some people were born with the fame gene. Like race or sexual orientation or X-Men mutations, it's simply who you are, and there isn't anything you can do about it. Perhaps it's why some people are drawn to crowds and cameras while others shrink away.

Benjamin Svetkey

#29. I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.

James Fenimore Cooper

#30. The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.

David Eagleman

#31. Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.

Herb Alpert

#32. And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them

Barry Davies

#33. I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

Billy Graham

#34. Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

Sanjay Dutt

#35. Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#36. I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies - in great towns and great crowds. It's a plant that takes time and space and air; and London society is a huge "squash", as we elegantly call it - an elbowing, pushing, perspiring, chattering mob.

Henry James

#37. A crowd is the only way to know if something works. Telling a friend or two doesn't matter. A crowd is what tells you what works or doesn't, so I'd rather go in front of them cold and see.

Ted Alexandro

#38. Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#39. The crowd ... a cacophony of colour

Peter Drury

#40. Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.

Eric Thomas

#41. Sometimes, I'd take shots without aiming, just to see what happened. I'd rush into crowds - bang! bang! ... It must be close to what a fighter feels after jabbing and circling and getting hit, when suddenly there's an opening, and bang! Right on the button. It's a fantastic feeling.

William Klein

#42. My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression ... I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers ... I try to bewitch the crowd.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

#43. The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

Benjamin Franklin

#44. The urgent crowds out the essential.

Nan Fairbrother

#45. But Fate does iron wedges drive,
And always crowds itself betwixt.

Andrew Marvell

#46. Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.

John C. Maxwell

#47. A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

Warren Buffett

#48. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#49. The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people.

Billy Graham

#50. In solitude, you will find yourself; in crowds, you will find others! You need both of them: Solitude and crowds; yourself and others! Without others, what to do with yourself? Without yourself, what to do with others?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#51. Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

Emile Zola

#52. My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed ... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.

Walt Whitman

#53. What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American children have never before seen huge crowds turn out abroad to wave American flags instead of burn them.

Frank Rich

#54. Television is like the movie business. It's not the least-objectionable program - it's the best program that gets positioned. Same in the movie business. It's not just everything automatically gets done by the "in" crowd.

Henry Blodget

#55. I've played for crowds as small as 30 people. As long as people want to see me play then I'll perform.

George Winston

#56. After a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.

Graham Hill

#57. The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.

Jason Calacanis

#58. The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett

#59. Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.

Polycarp

#60. I'm too scared to perform onstage. I'm not very good with big crowds.

Alex Pettyfer

#61. I don't ever want to be where I can't just walk into a mall and do what I want without a crowd coming up a round me.

Delmon Young

#62. He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#63. It's good to do stand-up. It kind of wakes you up and makes you feel like you're doing something. You got the crowd right there. That's all fun.

David Spade

#64. I don't run with anybody's herd. I don't like crowds. I don't like going to fancy places. I don't like the whole nightclub scene. Cocktail parties drive me mad. So I do my job and I stay away from the rest of it.

Johnny Carson

#65. A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#66. On the road you have to be more organized. Also, a crowd's energy helps you focus. Nothing compares to playing live. You have to slamdunk whatever you're playing. In the studio, you can do things over.

Chris Wyse

#67. The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.

Isaac Asimov

#68. I try to avoid large crowds.

Dawn Olivieri

#69. To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.

Whitney Tilson

#70. Add in the good stuff - eventually it will crowd out the bad stuff.

David Wolfe

#71. Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds.

Nicholas Roerich

#72. Beauty crowds me till I die.

Emily Dickinson

#73. There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#74. What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

Heraclitus

#75. I'm a homer, so the closer [I perform] to my house the better. If I could get crowds to gather around my bed, that would be ideal. I also like doing stand-up in places that I can surf, snowboard, or anywhere that I have a pregnancy scare.

Daniel Tosh

#76. I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.

John Lennon

#77. I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

Adrian Rogers

#78. Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.

J.B. Priestley

#79. A lot of people don't believe in what they are doing. They just want the crowd to scream for them.

Roxrite

#80. The theory of the "wisdom of crowds" says that if you aggregate many different opinions from a diverse group of people, you are much more likely to arrive at the best opinion than if you just listen to one specialist.

Simon Kuper

#81. For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

Emmitt Smith

#82. And I have the others in me. Even when I'm far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I'm all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.

Fernando Pessoa

#83. The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.

Al Yankovic

#84. I know this is a bit redundant, but it is really hard to explain just how loud Tiger Stadium is when you're standing on the field. The crowd is moving and swaying so much, and in so many directions, it makes the stands look blurry, like a pointillist painting.

Wright Thompson

#85. If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

Alice Meynell

#86. Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models
with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#87. It is possible to be solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts.

Syncletica Of Alexandria

#88. You know it's a perverted crowd when a guy is screaming at you to take your shirt off.

Jared Leto

#89. crashes are not randomly occurring lightning bolts; they are the consequence of the madness of crowds who are busy avoiding the last mania as they participate in what will turn out to be the current one.

Emanuel Derman

#90. I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#91. Other problems confront women in power. One is fine but two's a crowd seems to be an unspoken rule when the one wears a skirt. And those in authority have found ways to reward women for excluding others of their kind.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

#92. Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.

Bob Proctor

#93. Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the showbiz started. Maybe, in the end, there is no difference.

Peter Morgan

#94. Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

Jim Morrison

#95. It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.

Elias Canetti

#96. He didn't realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria.

Alexandra Robbins

#97. We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#98. If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.

Austin O'Malley

#99. After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

Patrick Rothfuss

#100. Chicago fans cheer and boo who they want. They're great fans whether they like me or not. They show you how they feel. I don't like crowds that sit on their hands.

John Cena