Crowds Quotes - Page 16

• Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

  Simone Weil

  Real, History, Imagination

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.

  Florence Welch

  Arms, Release

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• It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

  Florence Welch

  People, Effort, Style

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• Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

  Florence Welch

  Dream, Growing Up, People

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• There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.

  Shaun White

  Cutting, Hair, Half

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• What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.

  Hayley Williams

  Home, Knowing, People

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

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• I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television, before long there was this procession of people of all kinds, walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.

  Tom Wolfe

  Light, Two, Long

  "The liberal elite hasn't got a clue". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2004.

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• I definitely prefer intimate crowds. I mean, those are always the best shows, like, a small venue. Packed to the gills. Hot, sweaty. Those are always the fun shows.

  Yelawolf

  Fun, Mean, Hot

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• Chennai is one of the scariest crowds to face. Everyone looks so conservative, but once you crack the first joke, they are so appreciatively loud that they will hit you with a laugh that will scare you stiff and yet give you energy. Chennaiites give me the loudest laughs; it's the coolest crowd to perform for.

  Vir Das

  Giving, Laughing, Scare

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• With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, People, Sorrow

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• The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

  Ezra Pound

  Black, Faces, Apparitions

  "In a Station of the Metro" l. 1 (1916)

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• It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.

  Albert Camus

  Lonely, Stars, Philosophy

  L'Etranger (The Stranger) pt. 2, ch. 5 (1942)

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• Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.

  Anne Rice

  Passion, Heart, Suffering

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

  Robert Jordan

  Smile, Giving, Coins

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.577, Macmillan

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• You are doing God's work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you, and He will bless you, --even--no, -especially--when your days and your nights may be most challenging. Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master's garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and weep over their responsibility as mothers, `Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.' And it will make your children whole as well.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

  James Hilton

  Ideas, Choices, Important

  James Hilton (1941). “Three Famous Novels: Lost Horizon, Good-bye, Mr. Chips [and] Random Harvest”

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• She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart and the agitations of the world. For this reason, she was fond of seeing great crowds, and large stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures--a class of efforts to which she had often gone so far as to forgive much bad painting for the sake of the subject.

  Henry James

  Country, War, Reading

  Henry James (1882). “The portrait of a lady”

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• The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.

  Georges Simenon

  New York, Night, Lazy

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• It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Torches, Beard, Impossible

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 4, 1799.

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• You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?

  George S. Patton

  Men, Discipline, Brave

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• We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?

  Shannon Hale

  Mother, Real, Nice

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.280, A&C Black

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• Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; caps and bells. And then once more the quiet mystery is present to me, the throng's clamor recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, rather than void: and that, 0 Lord, Creator, Hallowed one, You still, hour by hour sustain it.

  Denise Levertov

  Memories, Clothes, Offering

  Denise Levertov (1997). “The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your limbs. When the crowd is finally tired of your screams and wandered home, I will climb up through your blood and sit beside you. I will look deep into your eyes... and drop by drop I will trickle my disgust into them like burning acid until... finally... you perish.

  Patrick Süskind

  Eye, Home, Tired

  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Tommy had felt alone in a crowd before, even inferior to everyone in a crowd, but now he felt, well, different. It wasn't just the clothes and the make up, it was the humanity. He wasn't part of it. Heightened senses or not, he felt like he had his nose pressed against the window, looking in. The problem was, it was the window of a donut shop.

  Christopher Moore

  Clothes, Humanity, Noses

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• The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Worst Times, Worst, Feels

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Point Blank”, p.12, Penguin

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