Top 455 Spectacle Quotes & Sayings

i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

Trump appears to some as too simulated, too much a spectacle. But all authorized politics is spectacle. He just does it in a different style. It's not conservative, its post-liberal. Rather than make hypocritical gestures towards the just, the good and the true, it's about making hyperbolic gestures about their absence.

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

One of the big things right now is the DJ is a spectacle, isn't it? You have the enormous light show, smoke, explosions, and fire. There's a dude with a USB stick playing somewhere in there, but the spectacle is created out of lights and lasers and whatever. The original idea of DJing - being a shadowy figure in the corner while people were having a party - is not the one that makes money and is massively popular internationally.

The best player in the world; whenever Iniesta is on the pitch he creates a spectacle.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on.

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

There's not a better sporting spectacle than an evenly-matched fight.

For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame.

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 the soul.

We're in the world of football, it's a spectacle and the coaches form part of that.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.

I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.

A musical is what happens when text collides with motion collides with song collides with spectacle. And spectacle can be the human heart; it doesn't necessarily have to be a helicopter crashing.

We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

My world is not spectacle and explosion. It's two people talking.

We live in a world of empty spectacle, the world of spectacle rock, songs you can't remember, it's all about the expression of money, power and kind of empty and fascistic. Where technology has changed society, where people are not using their brains as much, not seeing the bigger picture but constantly looking down at the cellphone and not seeing the bigger picture. Today's songwriter need to be on outside, find their own trip if you will and find a way to connect from a place that no one has heard before. It might be taken as weird but that is what makes it unique.

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance.

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

I don't really care what the visual is looking like. I've gotten away from - not shenanigans, but spectacle.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Women's bodies have always been used as a spectacle and objectified.

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. 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 the soul.

Who cares about seeing 10,000 helicopter assaults? That's spectacle.

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

Perestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.

The appeal of the Riverside 500 was based on that overall spectacle of witnessing a mob of brightly colored, bellowing automobiles gamboling over the countryside like a herd of runaway steers. Stock car roadracing is in fact like a mechanical stampede, and we personally think it's maybe the neatest form of motor racing known to man. It's definitely the greatest spectacle in roadracing.

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit!

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.