Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Jane Austen

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

Jane Smiley

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

Harry Smith

What we may have to do is move to a ticket system to have better crowd control.

Carl Sandburg

I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

Patrick Roberts

But as soon as things are back to normal, the crowd will be back and today was evidence of that.

Imagine 40 high school kids and adults crowded into the school library,

I looked out at the crowd and it was like I was watching one of my AC/DC DVDs. It was unbelievable watching all these people jumping up and dancing.

Jacob Epstein

My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.

Shaun White

Music gets me in the rhythm I want before the run. And the (loudspeaker) music gets the crowd going, and that pumps me up.

Nobody was moving along. We're lucky we have Mace because it is a somewhat easy way to move a crowd along. As much as nobody wants to hear it, it's a part of police work.

For me, rhythm, music and movement takes you to a deep place. It's a place not crowded by words or overshadowed by our thinking world.

I don't think we've ever played in front of a crowd like this. But it just matters what we do on the court, that we do the things we've been doing all year.

I don't think our focus is different, but maybe our young guys are more comfortable here than on the road. The home crowd can make a difference, like it did tonight, and when the road crowd gets going, it can rattle us. It's something we've got to overcome.

I have never heard a crowd say come back next year.

I didn't want us to lose the momentum. I do not think our crowd was going to let us.

Mike Sherman

I don't know. We've practiced a lot of crowd noise since I've been here and it doesn't seem to be as big an (issue as it was),

Buster Keaton

Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd.

Amity Shlaes

When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You pat yourself on your sanctimonious back but it doesn't mean the crowd rewards you for doing what you think is right.

Steve Aoki

I never cake someone who doesn't want to be caked - at least, I try not to. Sometimes I miss my target. I'm pretty much going through the crowd making sure I find someone who wants to get caked. If you don't want to get caked, shake your head or tell me you don't want to get caked. It's that easy.

Elizabeth Bibesco

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

Daniel Johns

I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

Claude Debussy

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.