Crowdnoise Quotes & Sayings

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.. — Jimmy Breslin

The real secret behind top athletes' genius, then, may be as esoteric and obvious and dull and profound as silence itself. The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center of a hostile crowdnoise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all. — David Foster Wallace

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. — Roland Barthes

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it. — Cormac McCarthy

One is too precious about the past, the other too hungry for the future. One arm being dragged into the past by the ethics of historic preservation, the other being yanked towards a hopeful (bigger, brighter, better) future. — Winy Maas

Dare to be as great as the people who love you mistakenly think you are. — James S.A. Corey

And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got. — Kate Jacobs

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary. — William Hazlitt

Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense. — Marshall Goldsmith

Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences. — T. S. Eliot

When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with. — Peyton Manning