Spectators Quotes

283 quotes by 248 authors

Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators? — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. — Milton Friedman
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given… — Confucius
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your… — Brian Eno
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962… — Richard Ernst
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. — Gerald R. Ford
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. — E. M. Forster
Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's… — Michael Haneke
I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers… — Michael Haneke
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 Super Bowl means… — Jack Kevorkian
It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the… — Angela Merkel
It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention… — Lionel Messi
Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used… — Maria Monk
Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. — Michael Moore
Film spectators are quiet vampires. — Jim Morrison
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in… — Paul Rand
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion… — Jackie Robinson
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands… — Will Self
There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is… — Gary Vaynerchuk
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. — Orson Welles

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