War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand an idle spectator… — Sarah Trimmer Copy Share Image
Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage,… — George Will Copy Share Image
A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators. — Ruzwana Bashir Copy Share Image
Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience? — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Sadly, I have met very few people who have a plan for their life. Most are passive spectators, watching their lives unfold,… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope,… — John Mason Good Copy Share Image
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
The International Cricket Calender shouldn't be so packed with action that it drives spectators away. Also there should be enough space between… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films… — Lisa Langseth Copy Share Image
In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his… — Francois Magendie Copy Share Image
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive… — Michael Basman Copy Share Image
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims… — Lyn Gardner Copy Share Image
The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are. — Harsha Bhogle Copy Share Image
When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's… — Anne, Princess Royal Copy Share Image
For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
