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Film spectators are quiet vampires. -- Jim Morrison
Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions. -- Helen Wills
Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road. -- Lance Armstrong
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. -- Gerald R. Ford
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
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
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. -- Ansel Adams
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has. -- Francois Truffaut
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 attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. -- 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 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators. -- Richard Ernst
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
Life is not a spectator sport. -- Jackie Robinson
Democracy is not a spectator sport. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions. -- Helen Wills
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better. -- Juha Vaatainen
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. -- Oscar Wilde
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species. -- Joseph Addison
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. -- Wendell Phillips
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
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 you're wasting your life. -- Jackie Robinson
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 such a comfortable front stall as spectator. -- Confucius
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
I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate. -- Albert Camus
It appears to [Nietzsche] that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... [Third] Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth. -- Georg Brandes
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 been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have. -- Michael Haneke
All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!). -- Augusto Boal
The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!). -- Augusto Boal
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
I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators. -- Hayao Miyazaki
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing. -- Duane Michals
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators. -- Ruzwana Bashir
The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. -- James Humes
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
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
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
I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator. -- Hilarie Burton
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
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
I am the reassurance that they have not changed. 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
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
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket. -- Vikas Swarup
Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent. -- Vincent Nichols
It is the spectators who make the pictures. -- Marcel Duchamp
The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators. -- Matthew Crawford
Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants. -- Mark Twight
The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators. -- Francois Guizot
My golf must be improving, I'm not hitting as many spectators. -- Gerald R. Ford
We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators. -- Matt Walsh
The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators. -- Sigmund Freud
A strange marriage that had been, though most marriages appear strange to spectators. -- Ellen Glasgow
The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers -- David Platt
Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators? -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I think spectators and fans are very important. Darts players would be nowhere without them. -- Trina Gulliver
The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators. -- William Feather
We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators. -- John F. Kennedy
In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators. -- Steven J Lawson
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh. -- Horace
The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform. -- Sybil Leek
The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers. -- LeRoy Neiman
It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides -- Ed Ayres
What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art! -- Ivan Slavkov
Pausing a few beats allows the spectators time to savor the experience of the miracle that has just occurred. -- Roberto Giobbi
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it. -- Jonathan Swift
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed. -- Louis Malle
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. -- Red Smith
Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players. -- Michael Douglas
Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be? -- Ernie J Zelinski
It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game -- Lou Holtz
You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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
If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero. -- Wu Guanzhong
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
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
As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament. -- Barbara Bush
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
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
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
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
All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too. -- Camara Laye
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
In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18. -- Willie Geist
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
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
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. -- James Humes
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
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
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
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
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
Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities. -- Fielding H. Yost
If circumstances are always the rulers, the shallow existence of instant gratification will keep us as mere spectators of our lives. Get up! Clarify! Get in the game and live! -- Claudia Simon
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
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
Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. -- George Lincoln Rockwell
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in. -- Jim Crace
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
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
. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own. -- Orson Scott Card
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
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. -- RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators. -- Saint John Chrysostom
The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players. -- Samuel Johnson
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

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