Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy Spier

The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.

E. B. White

Every time we played somebody, except maybe for Seton Hall, they're going to have big crowds there. When you play somebody like Southern Miss, there might be six people there.

At Thanksgiving, there were no lines anywhere. All these nightmarish predictions of crowds just don't materialize anymore.

Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels of the Met's director, Philippe de Montebello, discoursing like an undertaker on the merits of the deceased.

We are going to have our hands full. It should be an exciting night and we are going to need all the help we can get. Hopefully the crowds will show up and we'll give them a good game.

To have the time away from the maddening crowds is very meaningful in a soul-searching sense. It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

With golf, there's no big crowds or game-winning shots. Golf is all about mental focus and pacing.

E. B. White

This year, our crowds have been very well behaved, ... Fans are excited about the team, instead of just wanting to hang out at the game.

To see the crowds we get for our games and how the whole school is involved with the program is very exciting.

We've heard about the type of crowds they get there, and I think it's going to be exciting to play in front of a large crowd with that type of energy. It's great for our league.

Annika Sorenstam

I've never seen anything like it. The last time I saw crowds like this was the U.S. Open on a Sunday,

James Blake

I've come over a few times and not had much success, which is frustrating. I like playing indoors. I feel really good here even though it's not the same kind of crowds as I have on my side in the United States.

I've been disappointed in our crowds this year. Sometimes I don't know if our fans understand how special it is what we've already accomplished this year. I don't sense it.

We just started. The crowds aren't too heavy yet, but through the weekend we expect better results.

Maria Bamford

The bigger the crowds get, the more nervous I get. I actually am very comfortable with a half-filled room of people who are slightly disinterested and are irritated at a Barnes & Noble.

It (was) awesome. I like smaller crowds like that.

Jon Garland

It's been upsetting to see some of the crowds we've had, considering the way we've been playing, but you can't make people come out to the park. They've got things to do.

It was amazing. You had two huge crowds on the same night. You'd think they'd take away from each other, but they didn't.

It should be exciting and we should get good crowds with three Maine teams.

Chipper Jones

It's been an electric atmosphere. You would never expect to see the crowds that large, especially with the (hot) weather. I think this ballclub has piqued the interest of Atlanta. People want to come out and see what all the hubbub is about.

It's been one of the most exciting things for us to see, in the years that we've been competing, the level of interest growing, crowds being bigger.

Bob Melvin

It's good. We've struggled all year here, especially scoring runs and getting anything going. We had some pretty good, enthusiastic crowds the last two days, and it was good to put on a good show for them.

Laura Davies

That's the deciding factor -- if you can quite the crowds on Sunday. You know the big roars are for the Americans. If we can keep them quiet and get up early, it's a big thing to keep the crowds under control.

The big thing is to get local guys here and get the support of local fans. We see the crowds come out. Around town, people all the time talk about how they're getting ready for baseball.

Alex Gonzalez

Big crowds every night - it'll be very different from Pro Player Stadium.

It's too early to predict a sellout. But we're highly optimistic that we're going to set some really big crowds that are pro-Braves.

Jennifer Egan

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

Jim Carrey

I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts - they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them.

Esther Hicks

There is never a crowd on the leading edge.

Chris Tucker

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.

Jean Cocteau

You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is spectacle.

Fernando Pessoa

And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.

Evel Knievel

I always knew how to draw a crowd.