#crowd

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd. ↗

— Lowell Thomas

#above #crowd #cut #distinction #head

Now it was just the two of us, Max and me. And about a thousand other people around us. ↗

— Kimberly Derting

#crowd #love #love-story #lovers #romantic

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace those who preach god, need god those who preach peace do not have peace those who preach peace do not have love beware the preachers beware the knowers beware those who are always reading books beware those who either detest poverty or are proud of it beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world not being able to love fully they will believe your love incomplete and then they will hate you and their hatred will be perfect like a shining diamond like a knife like a mountain like a tiger like hemlock their finest art ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#genius #art

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

#always #band #behind #being #better

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. ↗

— Alcuin

#close #crowd #god #keep #listened

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years. ↗

— Mose Allison

#crowds #getting #good #i #only

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#different #different kinds #kinds #love #love is

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#ideas #involuntary #reflex #theatre

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class. ↗

— Annie Besant

#austere #beneficent #celestial #class #crowds

You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it. ↗

— Lou Brock

#baseball #because #before #challenge #conquer