Abnormal stresses and strains tend to accentuate man’s animal instincts and provoke irrational and socially disruptive behavior among the less stable individuals in the maddening crowd.
Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
It’s hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.
I looked at motor racing in America where at the Indy 500 the drivers are told ‘gentlemen start your engines’ and the crowd go wild because they know the race is about to start. I needed a hook and came up with ‘let’s get ready to rumble.’
There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.
Crowd involvement plays a huge part in the performance of a professional wrestler. The only thing I do not want to hear when I am in the ring is the sound of indifference.
While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.
The Philadelphia audiences, they’re like our home crowd.
I don’t think I’m an entertainer. I never think, ‘Wow, I can’t wait to get the crowd moving.’ Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.
The thrill of standing on the stage and hearing the crowd, it’s the greatest feeling in the world. It’s a blessed feeling.
There’s nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There’s nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That’s the best job in the world.
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
It was very special to score goals for Real Madrid, especially in front of the home crowd at the Bernabeu.
I can tell the crowd appreciates the way I play.
You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.
Getting to connect with new people in new parts of the world every week is a blessing, and when the crowd and music is right, nothing can replace that feeling.
My dad’s a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.
As I’m out there in the ring, I hear everything that the crowd is giving me. I give it back sometimes, too. As far as I’m concerned, I want people to walk with me.
I’ve gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.
A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They’ll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.
I forgive ‘Face in the Crowd’ its uneven tone because it’s precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies.
Not everyone is prepared for fame, not even at the level I got it. One minute you’re just a face in the crowd, next minute everyone wants a piece of you.
I think being a Pink Lady, for me, meant that I was in the ‘In Crowd.’ I was one of the cooler kids.
I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you.
For me, I got to start at FCW and see it turn into NXT, and I remember going to house shows, and there were legit ten fans in the crowd. Now, every weekend where we have a show, there are 300-plus people.
There’s a lot of crowd interaction at our shows. If they’re giving off good vibes, we’ll give good vibes.
We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.
Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.
I definitely like performing to a crowd that’s there to see a female hero.
If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
When I’m on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It’s a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.
I like to entertain the crowd. Personally I like to entertain my team-mates first, but when the crowd gets going, it is amazing.
I don’t believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.
Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in ‘Far From the Madding Crowd.’ The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
I’m telling you, it’s so exciting playing out there because I’m playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it’s such a good feeling. I’m really having a good time out there.
Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
When you are in the studio, you don’t have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.
I don’t want people to crowd around me and give advice on what I should and shouldn’t wear. Style comes naturally to me.
But if two’s company, three’s a crowd – and that demands the omniscient point of view.
I was in Leeds, just starting out, and I was hypnotising one person up on stage. Suddenly I had members of the crowd unsuspectingly go to sleep on me as well.
I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.
Doing a festival in Hong Kong was special, looking out and seeing this massive crowd and the city.
The country crowd just has fun.
I have jokes I’ve told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.
My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over the next five days, the attention never waned.
Once I’m on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.
At United, my United, we had been honed into a ruthless team who played great football but, ultimately, were there to win football matches and league titles. At Newcastle, they could certainly play on their day, and the crowd was formidable, but there was a weakness – a vulnerability that you could seek out.
At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.
Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.
I’ve worked in front of crowds of two hundred that sounded like a thousand, and I’ve worked in front of crowds of five thousand that sounded like two hundred. It really varies with the energy level with any given crowd on any given night.
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
I think a lot of us women feel like we deserve to play on the big courts in front of a big crowd as well.
Part of a sportsman’s job is taking banter from the crowd.
