“ The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ”
- Thomas Babington Macaulay- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators. ”
- Hayao Miyazaki- Copy
“ True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world! ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
“ I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it. ”
- Ansel Adams- Copy
“ Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory. ”
- Krzysztof Kieslowski- Copy
“ That's slander, and we all know that's against one of the Ten Commandments — bearing false witness. ”
- Liz Smith- Copy
“ The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ”
- Thomas Macaulay- Copy
“ It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. ”
- Rachel Carson- Copy
“ We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a participatory universe. ”
- John Wheeler- Copy
“ Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
“ Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own, which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
“ There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed… ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
“ The Boasting Traveler A man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic feats he had performed in the different places he had visited. Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses… ”
- Aesop- Copy
“ Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness? For witnesses, like watches, go Just as they're set, too fast or slow; And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd, 'Tis ten to one that side is cast. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
“ The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators. ”
- Nigel Mansell- Copy
“ 'To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.'. ”
- Ansel Adams- Copy
“ Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ”
- J. B. Priestley- Copy
“ As a viewer, I want to make the choice as to when to laugh. I don't want to be told. I want to get credit for some kind of intelligence. ”
- Bill Bixby- Copy
“ When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed. ”
- Les Brown- Copy
“ In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it. ”
- Brooke Burke- Copy
“ A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. ”
- Nicholas Johnson- Copy
“ I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy. ”
- Dennis Miller- Copy
“ A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. ”
- Bill Moyers- Copy
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