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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• 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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• 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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• His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

  William Golding

  Memories, Struggle, Taken

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.48, Hamilton Books

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• Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

  Yogi Berra

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• The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Preparation, Ladders

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2016). “Do It Now!”, p.52, Jaico Publishing House

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• Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Used, Mets, Walking

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.9, Google Publishing

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• There are gems of wondrous brightness
  Ofttimes lying at our feet,
  And we pass them, walking thoughtless,
  Down the busy, crowded street.
  If we knew, our pace would slacken,
  We would step more oft with care,
  Lest our careless feet be treading
  To the earth some jewel rare.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Knowledge, Jewels

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• When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Moon, Shining

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.469

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• The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.

  Jim Morrison

  Lovers, Forget, Wilderness

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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• For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Pain, Confused, Slow Motion

  Joyce Carol Oates (2001). “We Were the Mulvaneys”, p.485, Penguin

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• I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million you are freer than in a nest, where all sit around and look at one another, waiting until scientists finally discover ways to make us mind readers. ... the psychology of the nest is loathsome to me, and I always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude - that most natural, most worthy state of man, that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.

  Nina Berberova

  Thinking, Men, Waiting

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• Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Change, Dream, Work

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.

  Ogden Nash

  Lying, Mean, Acceptance

  "A Gleeful Splash of Ogden Nash" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. May 08, 2005.

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• [On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

  Myrtle Reed

  Effort, Church, Violent

  Myrtle Reed (1905). “The Master's Violin”

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• A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.

  John Waters

  Funeral, Trying, Campaigns

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.30, Macmillan

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• When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.

  Christine Pelosi

  Thinking, Rights, Voting

  "Democrats Push Voter Protection While GOP Shout Voter Fraud in a Crowded Polling Place" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2010.

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• That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

  John Updike

  Breakup, Caring, Trouble

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.19, Random House

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• I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?

  Patrick Ness

  Lying, Believe, World

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Anyway, lots of warrior tribes think that when they die, they go to a heavenly land somewhere," said the toad. "You know, where they can drink and fight and feast forever? So maybe this is theirs." "But this is a real place!" "So? That's what they believe. Besides, they're only small. Maybe the universe is a bit crowded and they have to put heavens anywhere there's room? I'm a toad, so you'll appreciate that I'm having to guess a lot here.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Believe, Warrior

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• A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lonely, People, World

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women.

  Ally Carter

  Math, Guy, Hale

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.

  Louise Rennison

  Agony, Brain, Rooms

  "Startled by His Furry Shorts". Book by Louise Rennison, 2006.

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• Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dark, People, Heartbeat

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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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