Spectator Quotes

All week long we talked about executing better and about being football players, not spectators. We kept it simple. We got back to basics and got after it. - Chris Hutchens

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists. - Marcel Duchamp

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

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. - Bernard Malamud

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate, final argument. - Clifford Irving

[Ernie Els wants metal detectors used to prevent spectators carrying mobile phones and cameras onto the course. The problem is rife in new golfing destinations such as China, where the European Tour will spend five weeks this year. Els would like a strict line taken at all events, although the world No. 3 admits the cost could be too much for smaller tournaments.] I'm sure if you asked the players the majority would say yes, ... It would be great, but it will take a lot of manpower and money. - Ernie Els