Quotes with crowd

  • We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.
  • Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism.
  • I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
  • A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
  • You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
  • When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.
  • Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.
  • You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
  • But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.
  • What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.
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  • Bob Saget 25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Horace You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Jean Rostand A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Allan Carr A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • W. H. Auden A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Alexander Pope A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Alcuin of York And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
    Original: Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
    Epistle 127
    Alcuin of York
    English scholar, clergyman and poet
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  • Barbara Bush Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Arthur Herzog But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Carrie Vaughn Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.
    Carrie Vaughn
    American writer (1973 - )
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  • Carl Forti Donors want to meet famous people, and getting a high profile draw for a fundraiser is one way to boost both the crowd and the cash. It's why the president and the vice president are always in demand. These folks are in demand because people around the country want to meet them.
    Carl Forti
    American Republican Party strategist (1972 - )
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  • Bill Veeck Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • P. T. Barnum Every crowd has a silver lining.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • William Hazlitt Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Francis Bacon For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • A. Lou Vickery Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.
    A. Lou Vickery
     
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  • David Herbert Lawrence 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.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Epicurus I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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