Markus Zusak Quotes

I try to avoid large crowds.

I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary.

If you're not keen on crowds, it might be best to give Edinburgh a miss during festival time when it can get extremely busy.

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

I don't like going out where it's really, really crowded.

Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.

Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.

On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.

I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.

My distinguishing feature is the gap between my teeth. I had to wear a brace because my teeth used to stick out like guns from a fortress.

I hate, hate Times Square!

If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect.

The learned and the ignorant, the grave and the gay, the mild and the choleric, the noble and the base, the obscure and the illustrious. Like the waves of the sea she surges with her throngs of folk, yet for all the capacity of her station and her power to sustain can scarce hold their number…

Cairo, mother of cities ... mistress of broad provinces and fruitful lands, boundless in multitude of buildings, peerless in beauty and splendor, the meeting-place of comer and goer, the stopping-place of feeble and strong. ... She [Cairo] surges as the waves of the sea with her throngs of folk and can scarce contain them

The crowd which assembled to witness this execution was unparalleled, being, according to the best calculation, nearly forty thousand; and the fatal catastrophe which happened in consequence will for long cause the day to be remembered. By eight o’clock not an inch of ground was unoccupied in view of the platform. The pressure of the crowd was such that, before the malefactors appeared, numbers of persons were crying out in vain to escape from it; the attempt only tended to increase the confusion. Several females of low stature who had been so imprudent as to venture among the mob were in a dismal situation; their cries were dreadful. Some who could be no longer supported by the men were suffered to fall and were trampled to death. This also was the case with several men and boys. In all parts there were continued cries ... particularly from the females and children among the spectators, some of whom were seen expiring without the possibility of obtaining the least assistance, everyone being employed in endeavours to preserve his own life.

English football has an enormous following across the world, not just because of the players but because of its history, its tradition, the excitement, the capacity crowds.

Flying isn't great for me - or getting caught in a crowd.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.

Pogba was our Usain Bolt - he allowed us to play in a certain way.

The Hawthorns has a good atmosphere, like many of the Premier League stadiums.

Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.