Crowds Quotes - Page 4

The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.

There is always something sad about the trams, may be because they are like our lives: They appear from nothingness and disappear in the horizon of the crowds.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by the crowd.

I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

What I'm suggesting is, stand for yourself, be for something, and the hell with it. Because the hand-wringers and the editorialists and the sigh-and-pontificate crowd will be against you, whatever you do.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

To keep the faith, run with the right crowd.

It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.

I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.

I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.

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

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it's time to stop the nonsense and find a place of solace to refresh your spirit

I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.