Top 202 Spectators Quotes & Sayings

Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.

The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

My golf must be improving, I'm not hitting as many spectators.

The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform.

The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?

Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.

I try to put on a show while being effective because the spectators come to be entertained by beautiful play.

In England, the fans are more spectators than supporters. There's a better atmosphere in French stadiums.

It is good to get the racing closer to the spectators.

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

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.

. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Going out to play a game in front of 100,000 spectators doesn't worry me. Nothing to it.

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities.

Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.

Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.

I have always been interested in crafting films that use long, static urban landscape shots as a way of manipulating the emotions of the viewer and forcing them to slow down, which I think simultaneously makes them more vulnerable as spectators, and also puts them in a position of being more than just spectators.

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.

We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how we handle lifes game, the choices are ours no one else is to blame.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

I think spectators and fans are very important. Darts players would be nowhere without them.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

When I'm onstage, I feel a lot of love. But I don't like crowds and random spectators.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

My point was to always have my spectators leave saying 'hot damn I got my money's worth.'

In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

It is the spectators who make the pictures.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

It's important to have a smile with spectators but it's not always possible.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.

It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides

The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

Pausing a few beats allows the spectators time to savor the experience of the miracle that has just occurred.

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.

The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.

The spectators want to see action, goals, tackles.

Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory.

Walking out in front of 80,000 spectators was unbelievable.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.