Quotes about Spectacle

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity Votes: 3

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle Votes: 3

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. Votes: 2

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. Votes: 2

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. Votes: 2

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see. Votes: 2

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle. Votes: 2

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. Votes: 2

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. Votes: 2

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. Votes: 2

As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment. Votes: 2

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. Votes: 2

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. Votes: 2

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? Votes: 2

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Votes: 2

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion. Votes: 2

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. Votes: 2

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. Votes: 2

You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths. Votes: 2

Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion. Votes: 2

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. Votes: 2

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world. Votes: 2

If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in. Votes: 2

Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop. Votes: 2

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle. Votes: 2

I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious. Votes: 2

Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching. Votes: 2

The truth--a hideous spectacle! Votes: 0

Treat your friend as a spectacle. Votes: 0

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished. Votes: 0

Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above. Votes: 0

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle. Votes: 0

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle. Votes: 0

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions. Votes: 0

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance. Votes: 0

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle. Votes: 0

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. Votes: 0

I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people. Votes: 0

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness Votes: 0

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky. Votes: 0

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image. Votes: 0

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle. Votes: 0

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit! Votes: 0

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world. Votes: 0

i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle. Votes: 0

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? Votes: 0

A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on. Votes: 0

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane. Votes: 0

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman. Votes: 0

New york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing." Votes: 0

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing. Votes: 0

What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness. Votes: 0

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men. Votes: 0

I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle. Votes: 0

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. Votes: 0

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things. Votes: 0

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle. Votes: 0

The best player in the world; whenever Iniesta is on the pitch he creates a spectacle. Votes: 0

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. Votes: 0

There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings. Votes: 0

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy. Votes: 0

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing. Votes: 0

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. Votes: 0

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man! Votes: 0

Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle. Votes: 0

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. Votes: 0

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. Votes: 0

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance. Votes: 0

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit. Votes: 0

Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives. Votes: 0

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them. Votes: 0

When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle. Votes: 0

There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance. Votes: 0

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Votes: 0

Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game. Votes: 0

The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers. Votes: 0

Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance. Votes: 0

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. Votes: 0

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime Votes: 0

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past. Votes: 0

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle. Votes: 0

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold. Votes: 0

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with. Votes: 0

The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse. Votes: 0

...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ... Votes: 0

Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture. Votes: 0

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death. Votes: 0

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. Votes: 0

I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life. Votes: 0

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now. Votes: 0

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void. Votes: 0

A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being. Votes: 0

Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself. Votes: 0

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest Votes: 0

You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is spectacle. Votes: 0

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle. Votes: 0

Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation. Votes: 0

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too. Votes: 0

Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen and politicians. Votes: 0

Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going. Votes: 0

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space. Votes: 0

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience. Votes: 0

He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind. Votes: 0

The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon or the sun. Votes: 0

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. Votes: 0

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war. Votes: 0

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at. Votes: 0

As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist. Votes: 0

Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones. Votes: 0

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness. Votes: 0

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation. Votes: 0

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres. Votes: 0

If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera. Votes: 0

If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling. Votes: 0

In terms of big spectacle, I thought 'Captain America 2' was phenomenal. I really loved that movie, and it was a great movie as a stand-alone. Votes: 0

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation. Votes: 0

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy. Votes: 0

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels. Votes: 0

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become. Votes: 0

There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important. Votes: 0

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel Votes: 0

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up. Votes: 0

I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features. Votes: 0

This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them Votes: 0

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects. Votes: 0

We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do. Votes: 0

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people. Votes: 0

For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate. Votes: 0

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist. Votes: 0

I don't want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art. Votes: 0

ʺWe need someone to get the roomʹs attention,ʺ I said. ʺSomeone not afraid to make a spectacle"”I mean, besides me, of course.ʺ Votes: 0

After a few awkward moments, Lizzy joined them and they skipped along the avenue, the three of them, laughing and whooping and altogether making an undignified spectacle of themselves. Votes: 0

In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves. Votes: 0

Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis. Votes: 0

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol. Votes: 0

The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight. Votes: 0

I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die... Votes: 0

I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically. Votes: 0

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep. Votes: 0

My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event. Votes: 0

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. Votes: 0

In the rush of todays world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature. Votes: 0

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life. Votes: 0

Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight. Votes: 0

In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature. Votes: 0

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity. Votes: 0

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. Votes: 0

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth. Votes: 0

I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring because I'm the spectator and ultimately footing the bill for the spectacle. Votes: 0

The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness. Votes: 0

The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity as an exhausted and run-down public institution, its building falling apart and its professional image tarnished. Votes: 0

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing. Votes: 0

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity. Votes: 0

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself...all of which I've earned a living doing. Votes: 0

We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross. Votes: 0

That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man. Votes: 0

The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted--power, relevancy, spectacle. Votes: 0

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?" Votes: 0

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal? Votes: 0

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored. Votes: 0

The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the spectacle of their liberation. Votes: 0

The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle has been lost a little, but even so, people continue to go. Votes: 0

100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist. Votes: 0

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them! Votes: 0

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools. Votes: 0

Once in a while an enlightened teacher goes out into the world and spreads the dharma. They attract some attention, and it is a great spectacle to see who and why and what is drawn. Votes: 0

I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience. Votes: 0

If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand. Votes: 0