Top 455 Spectacle Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
We propose that UFC and Akhmat face off in a tournament... And we'll see who has the strongest fighters. I think it would be quite a spectacle.
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game. — © Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.
The Premier League is a circus, it's constantly changing. It's full of emotion, ups and downs, unpredictability and this makes it the spectacle that it is.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.
The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.
[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
The thing that has always interested me - amidst the scale, the historical spectacle, or the social significance or the political resonance - has been the relationships.
One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up. — © Harry Emerson Fosdick
One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.
He is better than me in everything. I can only learn from Simone: he is a modern coach and seeing his Lazio side is a spectacle.
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.
I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.
Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.
There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important.
The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle.
I've been thinking a lot about the speed and spectacle in today's fashion industry, because they seem to mirror stresses in other creative fields.
It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.
it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime
As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.
You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
That's what I mean by this sense of erasure. You're inside some event or spectacle and you know you're complicit in it, but there really is no external.
I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me.
The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.
I think even celebrities deserve their privacy. I really do. It's sort of a hideous spectacle, the public feeding on all this information.
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.
Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself.
The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.
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 replace them — © Martin Mayer
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 replace them
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.
Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going.
We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.
A movie like 'Edge of Tomorrow' is so huge and complex - the spectacle and action is all-consuming - and that on its own is enough of a reason for a lot of people to see it.
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.
We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.
Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle.
I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera. — © Judith Martin
If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera.
You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.
Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.
The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.
How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!
'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
Enthusiasm is always an interesting spectacle. When it expresses itself with an honest and artless eloquence, it is difficult to listen to it and not, in some degree, to catch the flame.
It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.
As great a spectacle as WrestleMania is, there's something to be said for seeing a guy you like telling stories from the heart from 20 feet away.
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