Spectator Quotes

192 Spectator quotes by 166 unique authors

Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more… — Derek Landy
Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when… — Bob Goff
As he gave a sleepy, growling groan, that hand disappeared under the sheet. Arizona's lips parted, and her heartbeat tripped up. She cleared her throat.… — Lori Foster
I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a… — Jaggi Vasudev
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the… — Martha Graham
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with… — Francis Parkman
As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was… — Raymond Loewy
In short, it's a great economy if you're a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most other Americans, economic… — Paul Krugman
There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter. — Unknown Author
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress… — Bruno Dumont
Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a… — Martin Rees
Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged. — Alex Berenson
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes.… — Aristotle
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow -… — Kenneth Clarke
Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those… — Michael Haneke
The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script. — Antonio Banderas
We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we… — Parker J. Palmer
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic touches… — Henry Louis Mencken
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. — Oscar Wilde
Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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