Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.
First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.
It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.
I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.
I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.
Are you in a library or what?! (on the crowd being quiet)
When asses are needed. - You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.
I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd.
The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
the urgent crowds out the essential.
As much as I have respect for him, this is for the crowd. The crowd didn't deserve what happened tonight.
If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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.
Hearing a crowd scream is the coolest sound in the world. It can motivate me to do anything.
I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.
I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.
A lot of people don't believe in what they are doing. They just want the crowd to scream for them.