Quotes of Spectator - somelinesforyou

“ To have great poets, there must be great audiences too. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world. ”

- Jerry Lewis

“ The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. ”

- Gerald Ford

“ Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by. ”

- Lou Holtz

“ 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

“ To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Life without a friend is death without a witness. ”

- Eugene Benge

“ All of us are watchers — of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway — but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing. ”

- Peter M. Leschak

“ The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Beauty is worse than wine: it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. ”

- Immermann

“ When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. ”

- Decimus Magnus Ausonius

“ Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. ”

- Miss Piggy

“ A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience. ”

- Bishop Mervyn Stockwood

“ Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers. ”

- George Meredith

“ True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world! ”

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“ When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too. ”

- Stephen King

“ Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience. ”

- André Kostelanetz

“ That's slander, and we all know that's against one of the Ten Commandments — bearing false witness. ”

- Liz Smith

“ He and I are the only two spectators. ”

- Joe Clark

“ The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ”

- Thomas Macaulay

“ We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a participatory universe. ”

- John Wheeler

“ While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them. ”

- Gene Spafford

“ Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing. ”

- Bruce Paltrow

“ I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument. ”

- Bobby McFerrin

“ It's interesting, but in the last five or six years, the audiences are dressing better. ”

- Wayne Newton

“ I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing. ”

- Artur Schnabel
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