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Letter "C" » crowds
«Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.»
«If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds»
«As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room»
«All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.»
Author: Branch Rickey
| Keywords:
ballpark, ballparks, crowds, mystique, permanently, ring out, wedded, wedding ring
«Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.»
«Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels of the Met's director, Philippe de Montebello, discoursing like an undertaker on the merits of the deceased.»
Author: Robert Hughes
(Author, Critic)
| Keywords:
crowds, deceased, director, discoursing, distanced, merits, Philippe, plummy, railings, The Met, The Undertaker, undertakers, vowel, vowels
«HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined -- Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray, His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day. He thinks, admitted to an equal sty, A graceful hog would bear his company. --Alexander Poke»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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austerity, consumes, crowds, gloom, his company, hoar, hog, humorists, persuaded, plague, poking, renewed, softened, stray, the humorist, untaught
«Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
arteries, artery, concentrated, crowds, fiery, hotter, Iron Gate, pulses, sea green, The central, throbbing, traverse, traversed, traversing, vitality
«But scarce observed, the knowing and the bold Fall in the general massacre of gold; Wide-wasting pest! that rages unconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, For gold the hireling judge di»
«Business today consists in persuading crowds.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Business Today, crowds, persuading
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