Observer Role Quotes

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

I'm an observer - a watcher of movies my whole life.

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions, and passages, engaging them enough to get the story, but never enough to be indelibly touched by what I had seen or heard.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

I never practice calls. Everything you hear is reactionary. The way I look at it is that broadcasters are just paid observers, just there to tell you what we see.

The straight man has the best part. He gets to be in the show and see it, too.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

I like the idea of being caught between things, always being a bit of an outsider, having an outside eye on things - almost like a Shakespearean fool.

Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great.

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm not somebody who, no matter where I go, there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world, and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.

When you go to a club and always sit on the bench and look at the team, it is not easy.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has indeed a new relation to the physical events around him in comparison with the classical observer, who is merely a spectator.

I don't want to be 'the magician'; I want to be an innocent bystander along with the magical moment.

I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

I have been a close observer of campaign trends.

In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.