On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! — John Hancock Copy Share Image
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security… — James Madison Copy Share Image
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of… — Johann Peter Eckermann Copy Share Image
Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Itt iss Eevill…" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"… "And we’re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights:… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image