Top 100 Quotes About Spectators
#1. The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.
LeRoy Neiman
#2. I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think that there is anything bad in such a feeling; no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public.
Mikhail Tal
#3. Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.
Jerzy Grotowski
#4. Suffering is not good in itself. What is good in any painful experience is, for the sufferer, his submission to the will of God, and, for the spectators, the compassion aroused and the acts of mercy to which it leads.
C.S. Lewis
#5. We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
Henry Ward Beecher
#6. The rest of the population ought to be deprived of any form of organization, because organization just causes trouble. People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action.
Noam Chomsky
#7. I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
Omar Sharif
#8. In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.
Steven J. Lawson
#9. 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
#10. What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!
Ivan Slavkov
#11. lady spectators were left satisfied: the spectacle had been a rich one.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#12. Selfish Dreamscapes
If you have a dream, as you should, relish in being selfish about building every passionate aspect of it. The crowd of spectators and consumers will still be exactly where you left them ... gossiping about everybody else's dream but their own.
T.F. Hodge
#13. I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight. This attitude made me more determined than ever to succeed.
Harriet Quimby
#14. When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's going to happen next, the horse is just about the only one who doesn't know I am Royal!
Anne, Princess Royal
#15. Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
Paul Watzlawick
#16. Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.
Barbara Kruger
#17. I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford
#18. Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch
Dean Cavanagh
#19. I love New York. It is an amazing city, and the U.S. Open is a lot about the show. There are tens of thousands of spectators; these are some of the best courts in the world, and there is nothing like being here and making memories.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#20. I think spectators and fans are very important. Darts players would be nowhere without them.
Trina Gulliver
#21. When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere.
Michael Haneke
#22. One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
Lewis Tappan
#23. Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.
David Hume
#24. 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 on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
Maria Monk
#26. Pausing a few beats allows the spectators time to savor the experience of the miracle that has just occurred.
Roberto Giobbi
#27. Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
Lance Armstrong
#28. We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.
Malachy McCourt
#29. The world belongs to optimists. Pessimists are only spectators.
Francois Guizot
#30. It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
Red Smith
#31. You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?
Robert Harris
#33. We are watched by a thousand eagle eyes; let us so act that we shall never need to care if all heaven, and earth, and hell, swelled the list of spectators.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#34. It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.
Asghar Farhadi
#35. We must remember that beauty is dictated from the spectators opinion therefore anyone can be beautiful depending on who is watching you
Yolanda De Iuliis
#36. Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ...
Cecil Beaton
#37. In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
Duane Michals
#38. It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game
Lou Holtz
#39. We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
Terence McKenna
#40. Because Tavis had been the one to take the lion's share of the heat when it turned out that Blue Jays' spectators in the stands,
David Foster Wallace
#41. 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 of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.
Lionel Messi
#42. The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.
Francois Guizot
#43. He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as many actors find their most ardent vein when they sense that they have cast their spell over the audience, the breathing mass of spectators before them.
Stefan Zweig
#44. The spectacle is nothing more than the common language of this separation. What binds the spectators together is no more than an irreversible relation at the very center which maintains their isolation. The spectacle reunites the separate, but reunites it as separate.
Guy Debord
#45. Life is a goddess in action. Let's be worthy spectators!
Raheel Farooq
#46. I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.
Hayao Miyazaki
#47. When innocent and
virtuous men liked to have gods as witnesses of their actions,
they lived with them in the same huts. But having soon become
evil, they grew weary of these inconvenient spectators and
relegated them to magnificent temples.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#48. The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
William Feather
#49. The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.
Nigel Mansell
#50. Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.
Juha Vaatainen
#51. Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.
Derren Brown
#52. The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.
James Stewart
#53. Let me ... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
Woodrow Wilson
#54. The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given
something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.
Paulo Freire
#55. We're looking at ideas to remodel Arrowhead Stadium. It's 30 years old and it's not a good American soccer stadium. We're looking at ways to improve Arrowhead-which is oriented for NFL games
for our spectators.
Lamar Hunt
#56. Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.
Michael Douglas
#57. Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators
Oscar Wilde
#58. The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.
Ruzwana Bashir
#59. Christians are not in ministry to serve but to be served. They get ministered to Sunday after Sunday with no motivation to give back. Some of the people have a tendency to be spectators and not participants in God's work.
Joceline Bronson
#60. My golf must be improving, I'm not hitting as many spectators.
Gerald R. Ford
#61. A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#62. Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?
Ernie J Zelinski
#63. When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
Niels Bohr
#64. If there's going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently. Other than saying, here, look at this, isn't this amazing? It has to interactively involve them other than as spectators ... it has to engage them as creators.
Lebbeus Woods
#65. In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#67. A strange marriage that had been, though most marriages appear strange to spectators.
Ellen Glasgow
#68. As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.
Charles Stanley
#70. The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform.
Sybil Leek
#71. Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.
Sepp Blatter
#72. It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be spectators of this beauteous theatre, but also enjoy the multiplied abundance and variety of good things which are presented to us in it.
John Calvin
#73. 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
#74. Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.
Susan Hockfield
#75. 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 day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
Angela Merkel
#76. It's only a game. It only resolves tiny, insignificant things. Such as who gets validation. Who gets listened to. It allocates power and draws boundaries and turns some people into stars and others into spectators. That's all.
Fredrik Backman
#77. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
Kenneth More
#78. The vague disquietude which prevailed among the spectators had so much affected one of the crowd that he did not await the arrival of the vessel in harbor, but jumping into a small skiff, desired to be pulled alongside the Pharaon, which he reached as she rounded into La Reserve basin.
Alexandre Dumas
#79. We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.
H. H. Asquith
#80. There can be crowd issues everywhere in cycling. But it's a good thing for cycling that it's so accessible for spectators. That's why it's so popular - because fans can get close to the road and the race. But you also have to be aware of the dangers.
Marianne Vos
#81. The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers
David Platt
#82. We need to ask ourselves if we are passive spectators in life as we watch it simply go by or are we ready to grab the bull by its horns and join in the action.
Tina Sequeira
#83. To concentrate intensely for 4 and a half hours, that's too hard for me. Too tiring. I concentrate 'lo maximo' on the 'golpe,' the stroke, but between strokes I'm interacting with the crowd or laughing with my caddie, talking about the spectators, the cute girls.
Sergio Garcia
#84. The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.
Elizabeth Coleman
#85. Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.
Billy Graham
#86. Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
Horace
#87. Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.
Harsha Bhogle
#88. Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.
George Will
#89. 'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.
Tim Crouch
#90. What's going on here?" asked a deep voice at her elbow.
Anne turned to find her guardian standing beside her. He looked solidly masculine and incredibly competent to deal with the child's wizened master and even with the spectators to what had turned into a near spectacle.
Gayle Wilson
#91. It was part of the beauty, but also the tragedy, of this sport that the spectators were the ultimate judges of who sat on the throne.
Walter Moers
#92. When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.
Sigmund Freud
#93. The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.
Malachy McCourt
#94. Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
Jonathan Swift
#95. We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.
John F. Kennedy
#97. And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would be the official light unto the world. Right down to the present day we have been the spectators of a foolish contest between equally vain and bigoted rivals.
Hugh Nibley
#98. Human hands are great for waving hello, waving goodbye, and for making love alone in front of a cheering audience of paying spectators.
Jarod Kintz
#99. Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.
Murray Kempton
#100. When he throws one in from half court and raises his arms triumphantly, spectators' emotions rise in sympathetic gasps of joy; childhood revisited for a brief moment
Brian Triptow
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