“Living abroad facilitates treating life as a spectacle.” — Susan Sontag The Volcano Lover Copy Share Image
I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle. — Kristin Cavallari Copy Share Image
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with. — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Women's bodies have always been used as a spectacle and objectified. — Jameela Jamil Copy Share Image
A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on. — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
“My own theory is that the spectacle of the homeless may be necessary to keep the rest of us on the straight… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life. — Rirkrit Tiravanija Copy Share Image
100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“Hedges, Chris. 2009. Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. New York: Nation Books. Legaspi,” — Bandy X. Lee Copy Share Image
“The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
“Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
“Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The Tower is not a usual spectacle; to enter the Tower, to scale it, to run around its courses, is, in a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Suppose every photo of me ever taken was an infinitesimal piece? Every magazine ad, every negative, every frame of motion picture film… — David J. Schow Copy Share Image
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come… — Xavi Copy Share Image
I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Some guns were fired to give notice that the departure of the balloon was near. ... Means were used, I am told,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The Marquis de V... - whose falsetto voice and little watery eyes I have always detested - was saying to me with… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
We live in a world of empty spectacle, the world of spectacle rock, songs you can't remember, it's all about the expression… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“The spectacle erases the dividing line between self and world, in that the self- under siege by the presence/absence of the world,… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“The tragic fear and pity may be aroused by the Spectacle; but they may also be aroused by the very structure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately they failed to appreciate the best part of you, preferring to lose themselves in the labyrinth of your grosser illusions. Didn't… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
