Crowds Quotes

Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.

Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil torments of the devil come upon me: only let me attain to Jesus Christ.

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

I can't help but look for my future wife in the crowd.

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

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury), they received a peek into their future.

Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.

There is always something sad about the trams, may be because they are like our lives: They appear from nothingness and disappear in the horizon of the crowds.

I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

To keep the faith, run with the right crowd.

It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by the crowd.

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.

The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.

If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it's time to stop the nonsense and find a place of solace to refresh your spirit

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.

I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.

Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" "We made you", they said. "Like hell you did", I told them.

[The crowd] will finally succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times.

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

Over the long run, the crowd is always wrong.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

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.

When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.

There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd.

There's something about playing every night, it becomes easy and it becomes fun. I love being up there and playing for different crowds every night.

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.