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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is never very crowded at the front.

  Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

  Fronts

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• Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

  Yogi Berra

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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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• 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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• Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around himself and then throws himself into a crowd of Israelis. I've never condoned or agreed with it, but at least it is understandable as the desperate wish of a human being who feels himself being crowded out of life and all of his surroundings, who sees his fellow citizens, other Palestinians, his parents, sisters, and brothers, suffering, being injured, or being killed. He wants to do something, to strike back.

  Edward Said

  Brother, Men, Israel

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Freedom, Mean, Technology

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• I like the Valentino store in Rome.Because in Rome when I'd be riding my bike, that store is right next to the Spanish Steps, and it gets so crowded there, so I could sometimes duck into the Valentino store and go up to the top floor and have a little espresso and just relax and take it easy.

  Owen Wilson

  Rome, Espresso, Ducks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

  Warren Buffett

  Taking The High Road, High Road

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• To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

  Nancy Travis

  Country, Doctors, Waiting

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

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• A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Baby, Gentleman, Brain

  Phyllis McGinley (1934). “On the contrary”

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• The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Art, Mean, Men

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. A healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all...

  Tom Hanks

  Healing, Eye, Angel

  Tom Hanks' Academy Award Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 21, 1994.

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• My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace.

  Nathan Lowell

  Use, Opinion, Marketplace

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Many nightclubs from this era were very loud and very dark. Plus some of the best ones were incredibly crowded. To begin with, I could seldom get back far enough to get people into frame from head to foot and when I could, people would be constantly walking in front of me all the time. Then I bought a 24-mm lens and only had to be four or five feet away.

  Derek Ridgers

  Dark, Feet, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Home, Hair, Gone

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• We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  College, People, World

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

  Agnes Repplier

  Humor, Obscure, Social

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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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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• 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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