Spectators Quotes

283 quotes by 248 authors

The paralyzing effect of fear makes us as helpless as babies and blinds us to the truth that God didn't send us here to be… — Susan L. Taylor
Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make… — Erma Bombeck
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life. — Mantak Chia
I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed. — Louis Malle
I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think… — Jacques Audiard
It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to… — Pedro Almodovar
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale… — Peter Ackroyd
I think words come between the spectator and the picture. — Howard Hodgkin
I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator. — Gary Kemp
As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career. — Landon Donovan
I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing. — Jean-Pierre Melville
Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest… — Peter Dobereiner
Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be? — Ernie J Zelinski
This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents… — Albert Einstein
The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be… — Alex Prager
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself… — Joseph Addison
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know… — William Hazlitt
Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has… — John Berger
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly… — Ansel Adams

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