“ 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- Copy
“ It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. ”
- Johannes Kepler- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ Beauty is worse than wine: it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. ”
- Immermann- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. ”
- Bill Moyers- Copy
“ What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- 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
“ The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. ”
- E. L. Doctorow- 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
“ If an uninterested spectator, after a careful perusal of the New Testament, were asked what he conceived to be its distinguishing characteristic, he would reply without hesitation, That wonderful spirit of philanthropy by which it is distinguished. It is a perpetual commentary on that sublime aphorism, 'God is love… ”
- Robert Hall- Copy
“ The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going. ”
- Denis Donoghue- 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
“ Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law. ”
- Arthur Phelps- Copy
“ There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand. ”
- Joyce Jillson- Copy
“ Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. ”
- Margaret Miller- Copy
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