Miranda Hart

If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.

English Actress

Meghan O'Rourke

Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.

American Poet

James Van Der Beek

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. That's why it's my favorite city. You can do what you want without attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.

American Actor

Lisa McMann

Seriously, I dreamed that I was in my husband's dream, watching what he was dreaming about. Like, I was in his dream as an onlooker. It was so weird that I immediately wrote it down in the middle of the night. In the morning, it still sounded cool.

American Author

Robert Frank

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.

Swiss Photographer

Steven Moffat

When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious.

Scottish Writer

Linda Colley

Now, as in the past, rank is closely associated with modes of representation and display: with making an ordered arrangement of people or things visible and evident to onlookers in some fashion.

British Historian

Paula Radcliffe

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

English Athlete

Esther Williams

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.

American Actress

An onlooker usually observes an event without influencing it directly.

Passive Role

'Onlooker' implies no responsibility or participation in the ongoing situation.

Not Involved

Onlookers are usually physically present at the location of the event.

Physical Presence

 but it's only after dark that the adult turtles reveal themselves crawling out of the sea and laying their eggs to the delight of the onlookers the visitors pay good money for the privilege of washing the turtles at close quarters

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 a drawn curtain often emphasizes the separation. We can witness a milkmaid serenely pouring a bowl of milk, but that milk isn't for us. We're only onlookers. The studied composition in Vermeer's paintings

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 the raven in the rose coven seizes the opportunity to march proudly through the streets their public walk shows that prejudice is beginning to wane and reminds onlookers that the celebration of the earth

Onlooker

Passive Role

Not Involved

Physical Presence

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