Crowded Quotes - Page 11

• The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

  John Dunning

  Crazy, People, World

  John Dunning (2012). “The Bookman's Wake”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.

  Nora Roberts

  Book, Home, Space

  Nora Roberts (2003). “Key Of Knowledge”, p.26, Penguin

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• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  Walter Scott

  Mean, Men, Years

  Sir Walter Scott (189?). “the bride of Lammermoor”

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• Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Beautiful, Beach, Nice

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

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• Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Character, Personality, Triumph

  'The Poets' (1876)

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• Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Prayer, Flower

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.34, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Thinking, Wilderness, Chimneys

  Remarks at University of Chicago, January 14, 1966.

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• I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

  Simon Hoggart

  Suicide, Atheist, War

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Ever heard of an agnostic suicide bomber?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2012.

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• In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Busy, Invisible

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter”, p.50, Penguin

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• I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.

  Robin Gibb

  People, Rooms, Flight

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

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• The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Men, Philadelphia, Long

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• Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

  Jim Fowler

  Desert, Potatoes, Plant

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• I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

  Larry Flynt

  Thinking, Fire, Justice

  "Larry Flynt on sex and presidents" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. April 20, 2011.

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• You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.

  Nathan Fillion

  Brother, People, Guy

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• Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.

  Paul Engle

  Country, Small Changes, Iowa

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• In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fear, War, Fire

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.607, Best Books on

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• Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

  Terry Eagleton

  Evil, Giants, Train

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• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “A Promise Is a Promise: An Almost Unbelievable Story of a Mother's Unconditional Love and What It Can Teach Us: Easyread Large Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Children, Mind

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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Halloween, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational Sports

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• I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Somewhere Else, September, Sometimes

  "Sigourney Weaver for 'Tadpole'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. July 19, 2002.

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• I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.

  Irvine Welsh

  Order, Space, People

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

  Walter Scott

  Birthday, Names, Glorious Life

  Sir Walter Scott (1820). “Waverly Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortality”, p.608

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• All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more.

  Betty Smith

  Girl, Lonely, Party

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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