Nicholas Sparks Quotes

we're watchers of this world aren't we? not players

I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities - political, commercial, sociological, scientific - of the times in which I have lived.

Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.

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

I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.

Audiences are audiences.

I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.

You are not an active creator of the film.

I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.

I try to tell the story, always. I do not want to be part of it.

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

I've always been quiet, more of an observer.

Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

The one thing I'll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer.

You can be on a good team and not play at all.