Crowded Quotes
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Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
Princess of Wales Diana— Interview with Martin Bashir on BBC Panorama, November 20, 1995.
— Responding to the question "Do you think Mrs Parker Bowles was a factor in the breakdown of your marriage?".
Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.
ella wheeler wilcox— Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Not in the clamour of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— In "The Poets" (1876)
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
yogi berra— The Yogi Book. New York: Workman Publishing. 1997. ISBN 0-7611-1090-9, p. 16
— Variant: It's so crowded, nobody goes there.What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 81
In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
willa cather— Book V, Ch. 1
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
ralph waldo emerson— Quatrains, Nature
At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with my Futurist friends Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà, Balla, Soffici, Papini, and Cavacchioli, there came to my mind the idea of a new art, one that only you can create: the Art of Noises, a logical consequence of your marvelous innovations.
luigi russolo— Lead paragraph
The fictitious deities of all races in all worlds once more crowded themselves upon me, symbols of majesty and tenderness, of ruthless power, of blind creativity, and of all-seeing wisdom. And though these images were but the fantasies of created minds, it seemed to me that one and all did indeed embody some true feature of the Star Maker's impact upon the creatures.
Olaf Stapledon— Ch. XIII The Beginning and the End, 3. The Supreme Moment and After
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!To all the sensual world proclaim,One crowded hour of glorious lifeIs worth an age without a name.
walter scott— Walter Scott, On Mortality, Chapter XXXIV. Introductory Stanza. Recently discovered in The Bee, Edinburgh, Oct. 12, 1791. Said to have been written by Major Mordaunt. Whole poem reproduced in Literary Digest, Sept. 11, 1920, P. 38
Michael believed longer than the other boys, though they jeered at him; so he was with Wendy when Peter came for her at the end of the first year. She flew away with Peter in the frock she had woven from leaves and berries in the Neverland, and her one fear was that he might notice how short it had become; but he never noticed, he had so much to say about himself. She had looked forward to thrilling talks with him about old times, but new adventures had crowded the old ones from his mind.
j. m. barrie— Ch. 17 (Peter & Wendy (1911))
A ghost in daylight on a crowded street.
William S. Burroughs— Junky (1953)
A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
mark twain— Roughing It (published 1872).
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
william golding— Ch. 4: Painted Faces and Long Hair
All the animals cheered when he entered, and crowded round to congratulate him and say nice things about his courage, and his cleverness, and his fighting qualities; but Toad only smiled faintly, and murmured, 'Not at all!' Or, sometimes, for a change, 'On the contrary!'
Kenneth Grahame— Ch. 12 (The Reluctant Dragon)
My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.
thom gunn— "In Time Of Plague," in The Man With Night Sweats (1992)
Free speech is the right to shout "Theater!" in a crowded fire.
abbie hoffman— p. 214 (Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980))
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.
walter scott— Countess Brenhilda in Count Robert of Paris, Ch. 25 (1832).
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.
walter scott— Old Mortality, Chap. xxxiv.
“It is simple dog-eat-dog,” said Waylock. It’s basic battle for survival, fiercer and more brutal than ever before in the history of man. You have blinded yourself; you subscribe to false theories; you are permeated with your obsession not only you but all of us. If we faced the facts of existence, our palliatories would be less crowded.”
jack vance— Chapter XI, section 2
It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
larry wall— Usenet article <199811242326.PAA28495@wall.org> (1998)
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Poets.
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 .
walter scott— Walter Scott, On Mortality, Chapter XXXIV. Introductory Stanza. Recently discovered in The Bee, Edinburgh, Oct. 12, 1791. Said to have been written by Major Mordaunt. Whole poem reproduced in Literary Digest, Sept. 11, 1920, P. 38
I suppose that every parent loves his child; but I know, without any supposing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares.
— Abbott Eliot Kittredge, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 442.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau— Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), p. 60.
“Tell me about the city, then.” The master shrugged. “It’s crowded. It smells. There are lots of things to buy.”
— Part II, Chapter III (p. 140) (The Privilege of the Sword (2006))
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.
— Hubert Humphrey, remarks at University of Chicago, 14 January 1966, The Quotable Hubert H. Humphrey, p. 10
The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands, rapidly laying the long sidewall, The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks, The bricks, one after another, each laid so workmanlike in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel-handle.
walt whitman— Walt Whitman, Song of the Broad-Axe, Part III, Stanza 4; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 495.
But see the fading many-coloured Woods, Shade deep'ning over shade, the country round Imbrown: crowded umbrage, dusk and dun, Of every hue from wan declining green To sooty dark.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn (1730), line 950.
Human nature is said by many to be good; if so, where have social evils come from? For human nature is the only moral nature in that corrupting thing called "society." Every example set before the child of to-day is the fruit of human nature. It has been planted on every possible field among the snows that never melt; in temperate regions, and under the line; in crowded cities, in lonely forests; in ancient seats of civilization, in new colonies; and in all these fields it has, without once failing, brought forth a crop of sins and troubles.
— William Arthur, p. 191. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
