#spectator

Film spectators are quiet vampires. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#film #quiet #spectators #vampires

She opened her curtains, and looked out towards the bit of road that lay in view, with fields beyond outside the entrance-gates. On the road there was a man with a bundle on his back and a woman carrying her baby; in the field she could see figures moving - perhaps the shepherd with his dog. Far off in the bending sky was the pearly light; and she felt the largeness of the world and the manifold wakings of men to labor and endurance. She was a part of that involuntary, palpitating life, and could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as a mere spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining. ↗

— George Eliot

#view #window #life

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. ↗

— Criss Jami

#falsehood #fool #foolish #genius #honesty

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#everything #eye #highly #looking #spectator

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. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

#going #in my opinion #just #life #opinion

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#again #classical #comedy #fictive #found

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#lining #open #road #spectators

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty. ↗

— Maria Monk

#altar #assembled #before #belonging #ceremony

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#day #only #only time #own #read

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

— Orson Welles

#excite #flying #hamlet #means #playing