Quotes About Spectator

Illusion, then, is the simultaneous presence and interaction in the mind of two universes, one real, one imaginary. It transports the spectator from the trivial present to a plane remote from self-interest and makes him forget his own preoccupations and anxieties; in other words, it facilitates the unfolding of his participatory emotions, and inhibits or neutralizes his self-asserting tendencies.

The French attitude to the Finnish War reminded one of the voyeur who gets his thrills out of other people's virile exploits, which he is unable to imitate

Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life. Or sometimes I feel that my role is simply to be a spectator to other people's stories, and always to wander away at the most important moment, drifiting into the kitchen to make a cup of tea just as the denouement unfolds.

Yes, madam, I am finished. My star has fallen. I work and I try, yet know that all is but a farce.... I await the end of the tragedy and – strangely detached from everything – I do not feel any more an actor. I feel I am the last of spectators.

Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.

At such times I felt instinctively that a life and death struggle was going on inside me in which I, the owner of the body, was entirely powerless to take part, forced to lie quietly and watch as a spectator the weird drama unfolded in my own flesh.

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

I enjoy sports in person.

The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.

'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.

The assassin is immediately punched in the head by a nearby spectator, then gang-tackled by the crowd. Hinckley is buried beneath several hundred pounds of angry citizens as Secret Service agents try to take him alive. Ironically, their job is to now protect Hinckley with the same vigor they devote to protecting the president.

I love being out there. as an audience member. It gives the audience a little bit of something different. Like, why are these wrestlers sitting in the audience? And why are they heckling at this guy and that guy?

Badaud. Tous les Parisiens sont des badauds quoique sur dix habitants de Paris il y ait neuf provinciaux. À Paris on ne travaille pas.

I am lost! Someone has taken over my mind and is controlling it! Someone is in command of all my actions, movements, and thoughts. I am nothing inside, merely a spectator enslaved and terrified by everything I do.

There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.

On Waugh) ...and his capability to cut himself off from reality in order to become a detached spectator of his own predicament. The same mechanism of imagination which produce feelings of panic, can also - if guaided by forceful will - generate couradge.

Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more than a century and a half's worth of those professional, specialized tourists known as journalists.

Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience

Prayer is an activity. It is not a spectator sport. Listening to another pray is not prayer. Commiserating with your misery is not prayer, either. Prayer demands participation in communicating with God. It demands involvement, and the Scriptures marvelously involve us in prayer.

The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.

Yo soy al mismo tiempo el artista y el único espectador, y por eso cada día termino rendido y muerto de cansancio, agotado y trastornado

W historii politycznej Polski nigdy nie gra?em jakiejkolwiek roli, nigdy nie by?em na scenie, ale cz?sto siedzia?em w pierwszym rz?dzie, obserwowa?em spektakl dok?adnie, a czasami udawa?o mi si? na chwil? zabrn?? za kulisy, zerkn?? na to lub owo, dojrze? szminkowanie i kostiumowanie.

I love seeing tennis up close.