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Quotes About Spectator

right man to prepare the citizens of his country, who were facing disempowerment, for the benefits of the vita contemplativa. The transition to reflective existence was worth an error in reasoning: Cicero unhesitatingly created a lofty nimbus for the future Roman spectator by portraying Pythagoras making the many in the stadium into the few in study.
~ Peter Sloterdijk
I can't imagine voluntarily standing beside an F1 track in the rain, watching motorised wedges plastered in corporate decals zooming past at 500mph.
~ Charlie Brooker
I'd love to have Trump come watch me. That would be awesome.
~ John Isner
I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.
~ Heidi Klum
He was the solitary lucid spectator of a multiform, momentaneous, and almost unbearably precise world.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I am a big fan of players like Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Leander Paes. I would love to see them play.
~ Masaba Gupta
I've never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a complex of emotions; raw experience. The effort of memorable art is to evoke in the reader or spectator emotions appropriate to that effort.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The aim of theater—Aristotle said it first, and Aristotle said it best—is to arouse profound emotion in the spectator and through this arousal to effect a catharsis of the soul. If there's
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Dust is watching life's talk show.
~ James Tate
Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.
~ Aimé Césaire
And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of despair… And above all my body as well as my soul, beware of folding your arms in the sterile attitude of spectator, for life is not a spectacle, for a sea of pain is not a proscenium.
~ Aimé Césaire
Golf is the only sport where watching the game is arguably as grueling physically as playing it.
~ Willie Geist
Even as a spectator, beer tastings and festivals are just about the best way to learn about—and enjoy—beer. Many of the events in
~ Randy Mosher
The title of The Raft of the Medusa, incidentally, is not The Raft of the Medusa. The painting was listed in the Salon catalogue as Scène de naufrage – Scene of Shipwreck. A cautious political move? Perhaps. But it's equally a useful instruction to the spectator: this is a painting, not an opinion. "Keeping an Eye Open".
~ Julian Barnes
The title of The Raft of the Medusa, incidentally, is not The Raft of the Medusa. The painting was listed in the Salon catalogue as Scène de naufrage – Scene of Shipwreck. A cautious political move? Perhaps. But it's equally a useful instruction to the spectator: this is a painting, not an opinion.
~ Julian Barnes
Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.
~ William Hazlitt
This is a noble magnificence of thought, a true religious greatness of mind, to be thus affected with God's general providence, admiring and magnifying His wisdom in all things; never murmuring at the course of the world, or the state of things, but looking upon all around, at heaven and earth, as a pleased spectator, and adoring that invisible hand, which gives laws to all motions, and overrules all events to ends suitable to the highest wisdom and goodness.
~ William Law
God bless the American spectator.
~ Charlaine Harris
I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.
~ Vsevolod Pudovkin
The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.
~ Paul LePaul
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.
~ Mike Ditka
I am just a guy that watches sports all day.
~ Brian McKnight