A Quote by John Fowles

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

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Anything Books Crowds Desire Escape General Hatred Known Like Little Main Obviousness Why World

Quote Author

John Fowles
English - Novelist
March 31, 1926 - November 5, 2005

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

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

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

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

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

Frederick Schiller Faust

I think the crowds in Europe are songwriter crowds. Like, they are a fan of the words, and they're there to listen. An American crowd, they're there to get rowdy, man. And I love both.

Luke Combs

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

Neil Simon

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

Drew Curtis

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

Drew Curtis

Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.

John Seabrook

The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.

Gerald Stanley Lee

I've wrestled in front of great crowds in Montreal, and I've wrestled absolutely terrible crowds where you're in front of, like, 200 people.

Kevin Owens

Crowds prevent you to see the infinite horizons; get rid of the crowds and open your horizons.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.