Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're long past the point where individual cities, especially in the crowded urban areas, can go it alone. It is now time to work together.

Traditionally, Batavia versus Sycamore has been a dogfight out here, and tonight, it was no different. We had a great crowd here, they had a great crowd here, and I told the kids to embrace it. Not every high school player gets to experience that. This was a state-tournament type of atmosphere.

Roy Williams

You don't need to rub it in. I love our crowd but I don't like putting other people down.

When they did this in the 18th century, it was fun and the purpose was to make the crowd have fun. ... If you didn't make the crowds happy, they wouldn't throw any money in your hat. 'Punch and Judy' hasn't lasted 300 and some years because it wasn't fun to watch.

William Butler Yeats

Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh

Magdalena Neuner

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.

Steve Stevens

This needs to be a little wider, ... I could see how it could get crowded here in the summer.

To me, you can look like every other person or stand out in a crowd by yourself. And if what you enjoy just happens to be trendy, go for it.

Hubert Humphrey

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.

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

Barbara Ehrenreich

We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.

I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man.

Hal Sparks

Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.

Whether it is your home crowd or an away crowd, it is fun playing in front of a lot of people. They will remember that Kentucky game and it will be something that they will use in a very positive way at Tennessee.

Warren Moon

To be voted into the Hall of Fame would be the crown jewel of my career. When I look back at what I overcame and what I was able to accomplish, it would be extra special.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

We played an inspired game that night. It's hard not to when you play in front of a crowd like that.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.

Vonda Shepard

We've been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M.

Right before I scored, I got a pep talk on the floor from (Minnesota forward Shannon) Bolden. She was telling me I needed to make a post move. The crowd was telling me what to do, too.

Paul Goldberger

Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.

Benjamin Disraeli

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd

Aurelio Rodriguez

Portugal will be under more pressure because they're playing at home and they will have the crowd on top of them,

Ben Murphy

Nick has to have a good game throwing the ball. Gatlinburg-Pittman likes to crowd the line of scrimmage. If we can spread the field, I think we can move the ball.

Nine-tenths of the crowd that turns out Sunday wouldn't go to a regular road race.

New Year's falls on a Saturday, heading into Sunday morning. I'm anticipating a much larger crowd this year. It's important to have that spiritual renewal each week.

On the second Sunday of Mardi Gras, we had the largest turnout for those parades that we had ever seen on a Sunday. This Fat Tuesday's parade drew one of the largest crowds we've ever seen on any Fat Tuesday.

Obviously, we want to defend our LIC crown and be a playoff qualifier,

William Shakespeare

My crown is in my heart, not in my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen; my crown is called contentment; A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy

K'naan

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

Ron Wilson

We desperately need the space. Our high school, especially, is severely crowded at this point and has been for years. We've known this for a long time.