Spectacles Quotes

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Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she… — John Lahr
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public… — Terry Eagleton
Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature. — Johann Peter Eckermann
Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions… — Kathryn Lasky
I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles. — Jan de Bont
Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never… — Jan de Bont
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening… — Luther Burbank
The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward. — John Hancock
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . .… — Luther Burbank
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has… — Guy Debord
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this… — Jerry Saltz
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. — George Santayana
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as… — Julian Baggini
Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my… — George Washington
But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more… — C.S. Lewis
Whatâ€™s this? What are the antagonists doing here â€“ infiltrating their own audience? Well, theyâ€™re not really. Itâ€™s somebody elseâ€™s audience at the moment, and… — Thomas Pynchon
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness!… — George MacDonald
Itt iss Eevillâ€¦" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"â€¦ "And weâ€™re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. "â€¦some… — Madeleine L'Engle

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