A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“The world is made up of participants and spectators, don't be a spectator!” — Darryl Bennett Copy Share Image
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed,… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
“You're here every night, you join in, but you always seem to be - I don't know - more of a spectator… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
“The true aim of literary studies is to lift the student out of his provincialism by making him ‘the spectator’, if not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The world is no longer man's theatre. Man has been made into a helpless spectator. The two evil forces he has created-… — Eugene Burdick Harvey Wheeler Copy Share Image
One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“I observed that when a footballer is about to make a threatening strike to score a goal, there comes a big shout… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
“The source ran somewhere, far away from him, ran and ran invisibly, had nothing to do with his life any more. And… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“Do you know that the spectator is the last of the rings which, as I am saying, receive the power of the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“She opened her curtains, and looked out towards the bit of road that lay in view, with fields beyond outside the entrance-gates.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“External relationships seem to have been emptied by a massive withdrawal of the real libidinal self. Effective mental activity has disappeared into… — Harry Guntrip Copy Share Image