Spectacle Quotes
211 quotes by 179 authors
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We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is…
— Unknown Author
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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed…
— Oscar de la Renta
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He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.
— James I. Robertson, Jr.
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Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.
— Cesar Luis Menotti
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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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…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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…
— Martin Mayer
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The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives…
— Pope Francis
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In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more…
— Pope John Paul II
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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…
— Lincoln Steffens
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Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility…
— Unknown Author
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It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle,…
— Guillaume Faye
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Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading in the right…
— Russell Brand
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I say us - obviously I don't vote as I believe democracy is a pointless spectacle where we choose between two indistinguishable political parties, neither…
— Russell Brand
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I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out…
— Channing Tatum
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American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.
— Tony Snow
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I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit…
— Winston Churchill
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Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.
— Unknown Author
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