Spectator Quotes - page 6

I am spectator, not partaker, here. To me it seems more like a pageant made To represent mirth, than the mirth itself. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
How incomprehensible is woman's love! -it is not kindness that wins it, nor return that insures it; we daily see the most devoted attachment lavished on those who seem to us singularly unworthy. The Spectator shewed his usual knowledge of human nature, when, in speaking on this subject, he relates, that in a town besieged by the enemy, on the women being allowed to depart with whatever they held most precious, only one among them carried off her husband,-a man notorious for his tyrannical temper, and who had, moreover, a bad-or, as it turned out, a good-habit of beating his wife every morning. Well, all governments are maintained by fear-fear being our great principle of action; and fear, we are tempted to believe, heightens and strengthens the love of woman. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
God hath introduced Man to be a spectator of Himself and of His works; and. View quote
Epictetus
It is only in the last five hundred years that music has become a spectator activity. View quote
Daniel Levitin
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. View quote
Jackie Robinson
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. View quote
Bridget Riley
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. View quote
Will Self
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. View quote
Garry Kasparov
Roy Ascott was among the first artists to launch an appeal for total spectator participation: for him, the strict antinomy between action and contemplation needed to be abolished. View quote
Frank Popper
Roy Ascott... aimed to achieve a wider 'cybernetic' awareness through acting on the psychology of the spectator, who was invited to regroup the elements of the technological universe and exploit certain of its meanings. View quote
Frank Popper
The advance of human knowledge has become - at long last - a vividly enjoyable spectator sport! And a growing movement toward amateur science shows there is room for participants at every level. (David Brin)
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible or odious to the spectator! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, inpregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children. View quote
David Hume
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way. View quote
Barnett Newman
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable. View quote
H. L. Mencken
There give thy griefs full vent to flow O'er the unconscious dead, With no spectator to thy woe But my attendant shade. View quote
Ann Eliza Bleecker
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him. View quote
Ansel Adams
A picture or representation of human figures, ought to be done in such a way as that the spectator may easily recognise, by means of their attitudes, the purpose in their minds. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the "impartial spectator” which is forced on us by our moral nature. View quote
Ted Malloch
The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be An actor as well as a spectator. View quote
Aldous Huxley
I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images. View quote
Michael Haneke
Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is. View quote
Michael Haneke