Crowded Quotes - Page 2

• If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

  Gail Collins

  Dog, Government, Order

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• I spend so much time alone that whenever I see my shadow I feel crowded.

  Dov Davidoff

  Shadow, Alone Time, Feels

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• I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

  John Cleese

  Missing, London, Difficult

  "Ross and Brand were astoundingly tasteless". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• There are few places more lonely than a crowded night club.

  Dov Davidoff

  Lonely, Night, Clubs

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Mar 14, 2012

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• Freedom-loving people around the world must say . . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.

  Ronald Reagan

  People, Nicaragua, Vietnam

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.

  Dorie Greenspan

  Opportunity, Thinking, World

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

  Julie Burchill

  Bridges, Tourists, Amsterdam

  "Chill factors" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Humorous

  Yogi Berra (2001). “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes”

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• I think participating in "Gishwhes" is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.

  Misha Collins

  Airplane, Thinking, Order

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

  Matthew Arnold

  Air, Whispering, Rooms

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.429, Delphi Classics

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• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wall, Writing, Vanity

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.167

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• I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Air, Land

  Pearl S. Buck (1954). “My Several Worlds”

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• The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Boys, Noise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Travel, Space, Far Away

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

  Henry David Thoreau

  College, Men, Space

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.

  Henry Holmes Smith

  Girl, Thinking, Mind

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• I shoot in black and white, sometimes color, sometimes if it looks good I shoot out the window of the airplanes or whatever, anything that - sometimes I secretly take secret photos, shoot video of people on the plane if it's not too crowded. I don't know, whatever comes up.

  Robert Barry

  Airplane, Black And White, Color

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.

  Tony Curtis

  Moving, Cities, Different

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• The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.

  Mario Batali

  Errors, Space, Cooking

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• The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.

  George Henry Lewes

  Beautiful, Song, Intelligent

  George Henry Lewes (1860). “Studies in animal life”, p.11

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• I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Space, Strange, Moments

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• The thing that drives me nuts is when I get stopped in a crowded place, and they look at me and say, 'Who are you?' I don't know if they're friends or fans, and I say, 'I'm Annabella Sciorra', and they say, 'What have you done?' So I start to give them my resume. It's so embarrassing.

  Annabella Sciorra

  Nuts, Giving, Looks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!

  Charles Lamb

  Music, Pain, Italian

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.193, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt.

  Ricky Gervais

  Hurt, Atheist, People

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