When things get difficult I don't want bystanders, I need…

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions…

— Dorothea Lange

New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get the energy…

— Jane Curtin

Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit of his…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required…

— Stephen King

“It is from the bystanders (who are in the vast majority) that we receive the propaganda that life is not worth living, that life…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing……

— Peter Davenport

The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity,…

— James Wolfensohn

Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond…

— Anonymous

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

— Edna O'Brien

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

— Alice Sebold

“A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa?…

— Cassandra Clare

Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor…

— David Berlinski

She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could…

— Ruth Ozeki