Crowded Quotes

• I really didn't say everything I said.

  Yogi Berra

  Silly, Mlb, Dumb

  Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Mar. 1986

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• In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.

  William Kittredge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

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• There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Together, Reason, Ecstasy

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.15, Verso

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• A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

  Edward Abbey

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

  Isaac Asimov

  Growing Up, Vacation, Cells

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• We’re always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it bites deepest whenever others are around.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loneliness, Rooms, Always Alone

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.14, Macmillan

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• London and the south-east of England are very crowded spaces. Wherever a new runway is placed, thousands will be affected. Residents in nearby Longford, Harmondsworth and Sipson, which lie to the north of Heathrow, face having their homes compulsorily purchased for land to build the new runway.

  Tim Bowler

  Lying, Home, Land

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• It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Lonely, Responsibility, Cities

  Mercedes Lackey (1993). “Winds of Change”, p.198, Penguin

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• Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fruit Salad, Feelings, Onions

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.92, Random House

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• I’s been livin’ a long time in yesterday, Sandy chile, an’ I knows there ain’t no room in de world fo’ nothin’ mo’n love. I know, chile! Ever’thing there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on yo’ soul. An’ to love sho ‘nough, you got to have a spot in yo’ heart fo’ ever’body – great an’ small, white an’ black, an’ them what’s good an’ them what’s evil – ‘cause love ain’t got no crowded-out places where de good ones stay an’ de bad ones can’t come in. When it gets that way, then it ain’t love.

  Langston Hughes

  Heart, White, Yesterday

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• You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Waiting, Tears, Irony

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.313, Macmillan

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• when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

  Galen Beckett

  Profound, Priorities, Matter

  Galen Beckett (2012). “The Master of Heathcrest Hall”, p.92, Spectra

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• Our eyes met across the crowded room, like in the movies, except we didn't share a knowing smile and race into each other's arms. Instead I fell into the trash can.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Eye, Race, Knowing

  Julie Anne Peters (2008). “Luna”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy, and more than anything else in the world, you wanna get off. And the only reason in the world you don’t get off is it’s still fifty blocks from where you’re going. Well, I can get off right now if I want to. Because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it’s still the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. Whenever I’ve had enough, it’s my stop. I’ve had enough.

  Marsha Norman

  Block, Years, Bored

  "'night, Mother". www.imdb.com. September 5, 1986.

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• This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.

  Karl Pilkington

  School, Cities, Stories

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.97, Canongate Books

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• In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at the base of the Spanish Steps, and the ruins smelled like cat pee because of all the strays. The same thing happened in Prague, where I'd been yearning for some of the bohemianism of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But no, there were no fabulous artists, no guys who looked remotely like a young Daniel Day-Lewis. I saw this one mysterious-looking guy reading Sartre in a cafe, but then his cell phone rang and he started talking in aloud Texan twang.

  Gayle Forman

  Reading, Holiday, Cat

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.33, Penguin

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• Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.

  Patricia Briggs

  Talking, Lists, Public Speaking

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.124, Penguin

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• The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hurt, Hands, Firsts

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.271, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

  Jon Krakauer

  Opportunity, Dust, Hands

  Jon Krakauer (2009). “Into the Wild”, p.150, Anchor

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• The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Suffering, Triumph, Done

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.955, Delphi Classics

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• It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back the scene,- not of his repulse and rejection the day before but the looks, the actions of the day before that. He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them, -almost sick with longing for that one half-hour-that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against his-to come once again.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Heart, Space, People

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1528, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.

  Graham Greene

  Vacancy

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• Being a scrub was undesirable and hard work, living in crowded conditions with no privacy and just being one of many. Undistinguishable.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hard Work, Just Being, Privacy

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.193, Harlequin

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• Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around himself and then throws himself into a crowd of Israelis. I've never condoned or agreed with it, but at least it is understandable as the desperate wish of a human being who feels himself being crowded out of life and all of his surroundings, who sees his fellow citizens, other Palestinians, his parents, sisters, and brothers, suffering, being injured, or being killed. He wants to do something, to strike back.

  Edward Said

  Brother, Men, Israel

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I like the Valentino store in Rome.Because in Rome when I'd be riding my bike, that store is right next to the Spanish Steps, and it gets so crowded there, so I could sometimes duck into the Valentino store and go up to the top floor and have a little espresso and just relax and take it easy.

  Owen Wilson

  Rome, Espresso, Ducks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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