Spectacles Quotes

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You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your… — Stephen Sondheim
A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser. — Don Herold
We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution,… — Athenagoras of Athens
Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a… — Roland Barthes
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. — Harriet Martineau
There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. — David Myers
The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. — Thomas Carlyle
Kirpal's left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers of his daughter,… — Michael Ondaatje
He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and… — Salman Rushdie
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles… — Benjamin Franklin
There is a great need today for all mankind to heed the plea to cease to find fault one with another. Some of us are… — Marvin J. Ashton
A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all… — Wei Wu Wei
On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the… — Andrzej Wajda
The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her… — Charles Stuart Calverley
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has… — Guy Debord
There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is… — Percival Lowell
We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of… — Robert Kennedy
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time. — Henrik Ibsen
Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With… — Stephen Fry
The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with. — Samuel Johnson

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