Spectacle Quotes

211 Spectacle quotes by 179 unique authors

As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the… — Ava DuVernay
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… — Christian Nestell Bovee
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. — Catharine Arnold
I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never… — Pierre Trudeau
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
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… — Chris Evans
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit. — Harrison Ford
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… — Victor Hugo
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… — John F. Kennedy
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. — Thomas B. Macaulay
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… — James Madison
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,… — David Mamet
If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these… — Michael Owen
I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing. — Roman Polanski
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. — James K. Polk
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… — Thomas de Quincey
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. — George Santayana
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… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music,… — Sharon Stone
The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. — George Will
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… — Naomi Wolf
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up… — Martin Filler
With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things.… — Douglas Rushkoff

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