Crowds Quotes

Stand up - above the crowd. Even if you've gotta shout out loud!

I love pitching in front of big crowds and in huge stadiums.

Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.

I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting closer and closer to an artist performance.

A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do; if you just put your hands up, they do it.

I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.

Here’s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.

I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people, and they're like, "Cool! Hit us again!"

Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.

That's lifted the crowd up into the air.

If you can't draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall

The crowd is not us. It never is.

I have fun doing movies, I’ve had fun doing the animated show, and I certainly have fun doing standup. Even that, even though it’s just me talking, it’s also interaction with the crowd.

4. You hear his voice in a crowd more than any other.

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

It's not annoying if only a couple of people come up. If a bunch of them crowd around me, it's annoying.

In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.

I like big crowds. I find it easier to focus.

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

I don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with; it's just talking into a microphone that's going into a computer.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

Once you're inside the ring, a fight is a fight. Fans can't fight for you, the hometown crowd can't fight for you.

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

The country crowd just has fun.

Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.

Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.

It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.

Hopefully people are upset for the reason I want them to be upset. Even when I was doing open mics, I've always had people upset. I've never been the consummate crowd-pleaser.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder.

It's good to do stand-up. It kind of wakes you up and makes you feel like you're doing something. You got the crowd right there. That's all fun.

I don't ever want to be where I can't just walk into a mall and do what I want without a crowd coming up a round me.

Anyway, the fetish crowd, compared to some of the people that hung out with the skinheads, was all pussycats.

I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

I can move any crowd.