Crowd Quotes - page 2

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen. (Claude Debussy)
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. View quote
Novak Djokovic
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. View quote
Paul Brunton
There are idiots in every crowd. View quote
Heather Graham
I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town. View quote
Hermann Maier
Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city. View quote
Christos Tsiolkas
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. View quote
Eugenio Montale
It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career. View quote
Michael Douglas
You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to. View quote
Ivor Novello
I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd. (Morgan Brittany)
In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential. View quote
Richard G. Scott
I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools. View quote
Claude McKay
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer. View quote
James Thurber
In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree of illiteracy was very high.... the early men of science were left very much to themselves and such a phrase as "the scientific culture of Alexandria in the third century B. C." does not cover any reality. In a sense, this is still true today; the real pioneers are so far ahead of the crowd (even a very literate crowd) that they remain almost alone... View quote
George Sarton
Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise. View quote
Francis Parkman
In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies. View quote
Michael A. Stackpole
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom. View quote
Rajneesh
If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding with all the conflicting forces, following the general laws of violence of the picture... These force-lines must encircle and involve the spectator so that he will in a manner be forced to struggle himself with the persons in the picture. View quote
Umberto Boccioni
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)
The apparition of these faces in the crowd Petals on a wet, black bough. View quote
Ezra Pound
Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate. View quote
Bruce Lee
If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. View quote
Robert Jordan
There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge. View quote
Roger Bacon