Crowds Quotes - Page 26

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

The Overman will himself be a nihilist in the (good) sense of rejecting any metaphysical or religious grounding for truth and value, but instead of curling up in despair, or simply going along with the crowd like the 'passive' nihilist, he will recognize himself as the sole source of truths and values to live by.

I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.

Hopefully people are upset for the reason I want them to be upset. Even when I was doing open mics, I've always had people upset. I've never been the consummate crowd-pleaser.

It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.

Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.

Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie you could be spontaneous too. But you pretty much have to stick to that story or that scene or that script, but in stand-up you can go wherever you want to. It's more freedom.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

Being a little older is not going to win election. Being a little younger might, especially if the older candidates, Hillary Clinton included, can`t make the case that they have learned something that the younger crowd doesn`t know.

I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.

The country crowd just has fun.

Once you're inside the ring, a fight is a fight. Fans can't fight for you, the hometown crowd can't fight for you.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

I don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with; it's just talking into a microphone that's going into a computer.

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

I like big crowds. I find it easier to focus.

In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.

It's not annoying if only a couple of people come up. If a bunch of them crowd around me, it's annoying.

The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care.

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

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.

4. You hear his voice in a crowd more than any other.