40 Spectator Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. Michael Moore

Democracy Participate Participatory Sport Ceases Event Spectator

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde

Life Art Mirrors Really Spectator

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. Jean Cocteau

Everybody Paris Nobody Content Wants Actor Spectator

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. Will Self

Life History Eyes Experience Confused Group Futility Physicality Individual True Merely Between Opening Understand Passively Models Sitting Human Conflicts Processes Social Human Experience Stands Grasped Even Spectator Need

I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator. Alan Furst

Daily Me Wonderful World Whatever Difficulties Macdonald John About Haunted Something More Take Never Failed Genre Than Where Land Series Away Spectator Raised

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged. Alex Berenson

Good Sports Battle Runner Objectively Determined Winners Points Share Most Judged Certain Fastest Spectator Fundamentals Competitors

In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it. Andrew Neil

Sold Unlikely Telegraph Highly Go Again Then Event Spectator

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies. Aristotle

Eyes Will Poet Before Action Everything Unlikely Way Out Plot Possible Seeing Proper Scene Constructing He Most Overlook Were Discover His His Way Diction As Far As Place Far Should Working Utmost Keeping Spectator

I can't remember the last time I've been to a football game as a spectator. Bob Stoops

Time Game Remember Football Football Game Been Spectator Last Last Time

Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize. Bruno Dumont

Great Me Memories Change Cinema Mind Will Example Seen Films Gave Later Once Critic Reconstruct Prone Finger He He Or She For Example Wrote She Opinion Builds Continue Years Exist May Nostalgia Capable Apologize Naturally Original Even Film Spectator

Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor. Cory Booker

Democracy Endeavor Difficult Participatory Sport Hard Spectator

In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport. Danny Meyer

You Respect Try Will Else Everyone Once Easier Restaurant More Open Almost Attention Almost Everyone New Sport Because Reviews New Place Than Get York Irrespective New York Place Anywhere Anywhere Else Media Spectator

I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way. Emma Stone

Music Great Me Beatles Journalist Big Changed Everything Musical Way Say Kind Born Had Been Cameron Huge Stone Rolling Rolling Stone Wanted Fan Inclination Spectator

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. Frederik Pohl

Science Book Chasing Pleasures About Sport Doing Spectator

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

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I think words come between the spectator and the picture. Howard Hodgkin

Words Picture Think Between Come Spectator

Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States. James Carville

Politics Great Become States Sport United United States Spectator

Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities - political, commercial, sociological, scientific - of the times in which I have lived. John Burroughs

Political Others Thousands Rather Tens Tens Of Thousands Like Scientific Been Times Commercial Than Which Lived Activities Spectator Sociological

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. Kenneth Clark

Art Feeling Bad Some Shadow Morals Only Abstract Fail Arouse Does However False Should Even Spectator

If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on the sidelines. There is no such thing as a member of a political family who is only a spectator. You see the wheeling and the dealing. That doesn't intimidate me. I'll do a little of that myself, on behalf of my constituents. Lucille Roybal-Allard

Life Myself Family Me You Political Politician Sidelines Intimidate Member See Constituents Only Part Dealing Were Been Political Life Behalf Any Children Little Ask Who Thing Spectator

After matches, the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that, as a goalkeeper, I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts. Manuel Neuer

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. Manuel Puig

Mind Somebody Reading Philosophical Books Kind He Reading Books Understand Same Gets Accustomed Movie Information Might Fully Spectator

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