A Quote by George Wein

Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon drawing crowds of 10,000 and there weren't halls that could hold that many people.

George Wein

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George Wein
Born: October 3, 1925

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

Irwin Shaw

Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

Jean Ingelow

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

John Fowles

If you only watched Fox News, you might think hydroxychloroquine is to coronavirus what Tylenol is to a headache, or that gathering in large crowds indoors without masks is safe.

Brianna Keilar

I feel called to help individuals, to love each human being. I never think in terms of crowds in general but in terms of persons. Were I to think about crowds, I would never begin anything.

Mother Teresa

I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

Gabrielle Aplin

Why don't I like crowds? I suppose the worst possible thing I could say is that I don't like people, and that crowds are just collections of people. That seems like a very nihilistic way to look at the world.

Chuck Klosterman

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

Drew Curtis

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

Joe Cocker

Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

Ian Goldin

I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.

Sheryl Lee

The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.

David Eagleman

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

Drew Curtis

Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed.

Frederick Schiller Faust

People, like large groups of people are stupid. Individuals are smart and can deal with things and can make things last and work, but when people get together in big crowds they're stupid. They turn into sheep, then you have major situations.