Crowded Quotes - Page 15

It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back the scene,- not of his repulse and rejection the day before but the looks, the actions of the day before that. He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them, -almost sick with longing for that one half-hour-that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against his-to come once again.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Heart, Space, People

Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1528, BookCaps Study Guides

4 Copy quote

Show source
I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'

Scott Adams

Sometimes, Restaurants, Draws

4 Copy quote
Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.

Norman Mailer

Girl, Running, Fishing

Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.519, Harvard University Press

16 Copy quote

Show source
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Kurt Vonnegut

Summer, Baby, Hipster

"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1965.

83 Copy quote

Show source
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance:
Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.

August Strindberg

Children, Home, Self

12 Copy quote
As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.

Edwin Francis Gay

Sorry, Kindness, Heart

8 Copy quote
I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.

Julie Bowen

Book, Night, Bars

4 Copy quote
When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.

Christine Pelosi

Thinking, Rights, Voting

"Democrats Push Voter Protection While GOP Shout Voter Fraud in a Crowded Polling Place" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2010.

4 Copy quote

Show source
A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.

John Waters

Funeral, Trying, Campaigns

John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.30, Macmillan

7 Copy quote

Show source
I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier, where we could all tote guns, shoot anything that moved and spit to our hearts' content. But we live in a diverse and crowded country, and with civilization comes regulation.

Molly Ivins

Country, Sorry, Heart

16 Copy quote
In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, 'Whatever happened to love?'

Desmond Morris

Important, Becoming, Environment

28 Copy quote
Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.

Robert Wilson Lynd

Men, People, Police

4 Copy quote
All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.

Monique Truong

Glasses, Vintage, People

Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

9 Copy quote

Show source
When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

Charles Dickens

Nature, Moon, Shining

Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.469

4 Copy quote

Show source
To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.

William Faulkner

Men, Long, Childhood

William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

4 Copy quote

Show source
That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

John Updike

Breakup, Caring, Trouble

John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.19, Random House

14 Copy quote

Show source
I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?

Patrick Ness

Lying, Believe, World

Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

4 Copy quote

Show source
Anyway, lots of warrior tribes think that when they die, they go to a heavenly land somewhere," said the toad. "You know, where they can drink and fight and feast forever? So maybe this is theirs." "But this is a real place!" "So? That's what they believe. Besides, they're only small. Maybe the universe is a bit crowded and they have to put heavens anywhere there's room? I'm a toad, so you'll appreciate that I'm having to guess a lot here.

Terry Pratchett

Real, Believe, Warrior

4 Copy quote
I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million you are freer than in a nest, where all sit around and look at one another, waiting until scientists finally discover ways to make us mind readers. ... the psychology of the nest is loathsome to me, and I always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude - that most natural, most worthy state of man, that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.

Nina Berberova

Thinking, Men, Waiting

4 Copy quote
Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.

George Carlin

Philosophy, Clouds, Eight

George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

58 Copy quote

Show source
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?

William Henry Hudson

Cities, Joy, Soul

William Henry Hudson (2010). “The Purple Land: Being One Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Oriental, in South America, as Told by Himself”, p.235, The Floating Press

6 Copy quote

Show source
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. ... No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves.

Mary McCarthy

Life, Character, Cities

"On the contrary".

4 Copy quote

Show source
Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar,
Dancing on the light from star to star.
Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are,
I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream,
You could have been anyone to me.
Before that moment you touched my lips
That perfect feeling when time just slips
Away between us on our foggy trip.

Neil Young

Dream, Stars, Eye

26 Copy quote
Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.

Margaret Mead

Mother, Children, Moving

5 Copy quote
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Orison Swett Marden

Change, Dream, Work

Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

15 Copy quote

Show source