Crowded Quotations

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'

Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!

There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch Barack Obama being sworn in. During his soaring inaugural address, the new president gazed over a teeming National Mall that was crowded with more than a million people.

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.

College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as transmission from crowded living conditions and social behaviors common among college students.

For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can't go home because of Israel, and can't work because of Lebanese laws - are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists.

We encounter and enter our richest, most humanly defining experiences by way of a tear in the fabric of things, because we are running late, or because we recognize, across a crowded room, a face whose lack of perfection allows a unique light to shine through and to stir us with uncommon wonder.

Maybe our best family trip started at Victoria Falls, which drenches you with spray and is so vast that it makes Niagara Falls seem like a backyard creek. Then we rented a car and made our way to Hwange National Park, which was empty of people but crowded with zebras, giraffes, elephants and more.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank.

Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein.

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

Marvel's got a crowded universe, and there are already so many characters hogging the spotlight that it's hard to break through that. First off, whatever character you're creating, odds are, there's already someone similar in one way or another.

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

It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.

Once, I was coming back from school, and there was this guy who was eve-teasing me and my friend. I had a Milton water bottle that I flung it at his face. My dad told me if you are in a crowded place and a guy eve-teases, you should make noise. I did exactly that and got people on the road to beat up the guy.

We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

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

One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.

To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!

I don't like going out where it's really, really crowded.

The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.

Should we be going down in a confined, crowded space at a site that will always be a target?

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.

Police, exercising sensitivity and care, first fired shots in the air to scare him and prevent a graver incident, but despite this he ran toward a crowded area. He was shot and lost his life,

Obviously he lives with his dogs and takes good care of them, they are much better off with him than in a crowded dog pound.

Now we are hoping to implement a decision we made a long time ago on the areas we didn't include, because it is very crowded and busy. We have people who end up camping on meadows and other areas where it is not permitted. The expansion would reduce the physical wear and tear on the environment.

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.

Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

I did lose my sight for a bit because I was crowded in. Everybody rushed on to the track. Then a couple of minutes later the announcement came.

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.

If the facility is crowded or during peak time, a 30-minute limit is advised on all aerobic equipment.

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

Some of those people might be crowded out, particularly around the Southeast and West.

Pittsburgh really came at us hard, had us scrambling there. They crowded the net, too. There were a lot of shots I didn't see.

Patrolling in markets and crowded areas has been intensified and posters and leaflets are being put up educating the public to be careful about suspicious packages.

I will not yell "Fire" in a crowded classroom

Kyle just crowded me into the wall there. But no hard feelings. I'll just chalk it up to hard racing. Anyway, I talked with Kyle after the race. Everything's settled, we're on good terms, and I got his dad's autograph.

I think everything in South Florida is wonderful, except for I-95. It's so crowded with cars whizzing by you that you literally fear for your life.

Last night was different. Different because of the extremely crowded roads, perhaps because of the Thanksgiving holiday. Perhaps people weren't focusing, perhaps they were thinking about a Thanksgiving dinner with their family.

People are done shopping, the pressure's off, and they'll be looking for leisure activities. But certainly, there's competition. This is as crowded a field as I can remember in a long time.

Just because a marketplace gets crowded doesn't mean that it will have a negative impact on sales. The market is certainly growing based on the demographics.

R.E.M.'s 'Automatic for the People' - that's probably one of my favourite records - Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' - that's some record - Crowded House's 'Together Alone' - that's brilliant, fantastic record.

Our unique local knowledge enables passengers to travel beyond the crowded game reserves to find the best wildlife watching opportunities.

It doesn't seem to be as crowded as we expected it to be.

I think that's the best thing that could happen. This place gets pretty crowded at times.

I think it is challenging, because it is in an increasingly crowded space for distribution of movies. I'm not a big fan of having to have a separate set-top box just to watch movies.

Usually we play better in the second half, so I figured we could pick it up and score a couple goals. We got the ball down the sides a lot better and put it in the box because their team crowded the middle. We got it wide and kept possession.

The $3 billion size should keep it comfortably within an already crowded 5-year sector. Speculation that Fannie would choose a 3-year may have been thwarted by the glut of 3-year sovereigns this week.

We have outgrown it tremendously. During an emergency, we have 75 to 80 people crowded in there.

We get a huge crowd of people that come, but the slopes never get too terribly crowded because a lot of people just come to hang out and kind of celebrate the change of the seasons outdoors.

We are aware that last night at Abe and Jake's more than one fight broke out inside. All reports we have received are that a fight broke out on a crowded set of stairs that Rodrick Stewart was using to exit the premises. Rodrick was hit over the head with some form of blunt instrument while he was exiting. All reports we have received indicate Rodrick had no involvement in the altercation other than him being hit over the head while going up the stairs. He received four staples to the top of his head and is feeling fine today. Rodrick's being at Abe and Jake's did not violate team policies.

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.

When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded

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.

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.

We're like family. We enjoy each other's company off the court. And it doesn't feel crowded on the court. You just have to find who's hot at the right time.

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

The explosion in Bali is reported to have taken place in a very crowded area, so if obviously it is confirmed to be a bomb, then it is aimed at causing as much casualties and ... as many victims as possible,

When we get to the waterfall, it could be crowded or empty. We never know.

We fear that if people huddle closely together in temporary shelters and crowded conditions, more measles cases could occur.

Believe me, the pain I feel with this act is the full realization that we must do it, ... We cannot hold onto Gaza forever, more than a million Palestinians live there... crowded in refugee camps, poverty and hotbeds of hatred with no hope on the horizon.

Corporate gifting is a crowded and competitive field. Promotional-product salespeople will tell their customers they can get them anything -- and they can.

Even in a crowded room, likable leaders make people feel like they're having a one-on-one conversation, as if they're the only person in the room that matters. And, for that moment, they are. Likable leaders communicate on a very personal, emotional level.

Every market is crowded and competitive, ... and everyone survives based on whether we want to visit that person everyday.

A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.

The train was already crowded by the time I got on. I did get a seat, but after that, all of the seats were taken.

We're thinking that it's a very good showing for my first time out. We had a very crowded field of people who were interested, ... We're just looking forward to making sure people know who I am in the general.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

The question remains, can they buy their way into a crowded market? Are their capabilities and price unique enough to garner significant market share growth? And how will they execute on their roadmap?

The risk you can't do anything about feels scarier than the one you can. Washing your hands a lot, sneezing into your elbow, knowing that avoiding crowded places if there's a flu epidemic of any kind, those are applicable. They're emotionally reassuring in the face of some new threat. New threats are always scarier than ones we've lived with for a while. It's just their newness.

U.S. and Afghan forces are setting up polling stations in crowded areas which if attacked will cause big losses.

Before I started my search I had no idea how much people moved in the 1800s. As the first colonies got crowded people moved west. If they were poor, they headed towards the frontier to find land to farm.

We crowded him too much last game and he went around us. This time we backed off him.

Even though we have reduced the size of the package, and the amount of current (2.6 mA under these conditions), we have boosted the amount of output power. The output power is so significant, that you will be sure to hear your Boomer -equipped mobile phone ringing in noisy environments such as crowded restaurants.

PSP will enter an already crowded space, but one with much growth opportunities. PSP is a new format and a new business for us. It is a totally new play experience.

Space development and settlement will not happen if it's internationally taxed and controlled, ... I think space settlement is a social 'release valve' that we desperately need. ... It's only going to get more crowded here on Earth.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

A lot of the traditional business books are still struggling. It is a crowded cluster of magazines of which there are some underperformers. So it is a curiosity.

Sometimes they are too crowded there's only standing room if you're lucky.

Evacuees are coming back from places such as Tyler or Dallas and they're finding out they can't get back in (to their homes), so they're stuck here, and it's adding to an already crowded situation, ... You have to put them somewhere.

There's only so much room. I think crowded is the fair term to describe the marketplace right now.

Think of the investor polls as a crowded theater. If the polls are telling us everyone is in the market, then, if the smallest thing happens, everyone tries to run though one door.

This is a crowded and brutal market that makes the NHL look like the opera. It also lacks customer loyalty. Our research shows that only 4 in 10 consumers who use online travel sites say they routinely go to the same site.

They were going about 13 to 14 miles an hour, so it was really hard to catch them. I crowded them on the side of the trail and they recognized me and I said 'Whoa' and they stopped.

Your jail is one of the most crowded jails I've been in,

You're beautiful It's true I saw your face In a crowded place and I dont know what to do cause I will never be with you

You're beautifulIt's trueI saw your face In a crowded placeand I dont know what to docause I will never be with you

This is definitely the best time to surf, and the beach gets pretty crowded when there's a hurricane out there.

Initiative understands who we are and where we are going. The Initiative network offers us the reach, the know-how and the creative talent to help us maintain our edge in the crowded and competitive media marketplace.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

I joined a writing class at a nearby community center, where I was the youngest participant by about 40 years. Once a week, I'd funnel down a staircase and join the dozen retirees crowded in folding chairs around a table to discuss one another's stories.