Crowds Quotes - Page 6

• Never give advice in a crowd.

  Pope Paul VI

  Giving, Never Giving Up, Advice

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• The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Ideas, Theatre, Reflexes

  "The Art of the Theatre".

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• Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

  Steve Harvey

  Comedian, Drag, Momma

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• I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Reading

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

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• We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.

  Layne Staley

  Night, Slayer, Survived

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• You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7,000 to 8,000 fans for each team.

  Lamar Hunt

  Team, Fans, Littles

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• Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

  Lara St. John

  Strange, Reactions, Concerts

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• 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

  Circus, Dangerous, Virtuoso

  "Music in the Modern World". Book by Rollo Hugh Myers, 1948.

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• We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

  Bill Condon

  Whales, Kind, Genre

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• Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Being Different, Different

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• I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

  Kristen Johnston

  People, Fading

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• Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Communication, Contagion, Pure

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• When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

  Patti LaBelle

  Inspiring, Black And White, People

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Mar 05, 2014

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• Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Attitude, Atmosphere

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  Wallace Stevens

  Mirrors, Foolish, Unreal

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

  Cyril Connolly

  Stupid, Power, Bored

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• Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.

  Clive Bell

  Work, Mistake, Class

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• You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.

  Lou Brock

  Sports, Baseball, Errors

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• You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

  Dane Cook

  Laughing, Attention, Pay

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• George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.

  Martin Sheen

  Expression, Comic, Pardon

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• He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

  Karl Kraus

  Opportunity, Ethos, Literature

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• Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

  Wally Lamb

  Love, Shapes, Size

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• Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

  Kelly Jones

  Japan, Waiting, Sound

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• You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

  Chris Matthews

  Guy, Literature, This Guy

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• I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Enjoy, Company

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by Arthur Murphy] Poems. Rasselas, prince of Abissinia. Letters”, p.237

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