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Quotes About Spectacular

I'd rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes.
~ Douglas Trumbull
Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?
~ Jan de Bont
Funny thing, every time an angel appeared to someone in the Bible, the first thing he'd say was, "Fear not."... I guess they were pretty spectacular.
~ Gilbert Morris
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I took off my shoes, as well, and followed her into the room. I'd left the lights on low so their reflection against the floor-to-ceiling window glass wouldn't obscure the view of the harbor and the lights of Hong Kong beyond it, but still she paused to log the room details before appreciating the panorama outside. I couldn't help smiling at that, although it wasn't unexpected. A civilian would never have paused before taking in that spectacular scenery.
~ Barry Eisler
Exposure to an unusually spectacular place in conducive circumstance, the thinking goes, can release one from the prison of one's own ego and initiate a renewed awareness of the wondrous, salutary, and informing nature of the Other, the thing outside of the self.
~ Barry Lopez
We're a dramatic people," Perry Mason said slowly. "We're not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It's a national craving. We're geared to a rapid rate of thought. We want to have things move in a spectacular manner.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
If somebody's going to represent our music live, I'd like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.
~ Roger Taylor
There's a lot of indigenous wrestling styles there that used to be a lot more popular and stronger within the European continent. Although, there's still quite a few countries over there that produce pretty spectacular Greco and freestyle wrestlers.
~ Josh Barnett
The Rothschilds had entered upon their spectacular career as the financial servants of the Kurfürst of Hessen, one of the outstanding moneylenders of his time, who taught them business practice and provided them with many of their customers.
~ Hannah Arendt
Ce monde d'objets révèle de façon spectaculaire la partie non mortelle des êtres mortels. Tout se passe comme si la stabilité du monde se faisait transparente dans la permanence de l'art
~ Hannah Arendt
In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
~ Imre Kertesz
I like to be glamorous so I love the clothing and the big entrances. It needs to be spectacular!
~ Paulina Rubio
It then became intolerable that while I was not in any way interested in the world's affairs the world should have decided to interfere so spectacularly in mine. […] I am tired of offering my services as a smokescreen when there is a good chance of my being dismembered in the process and when I don't approve of what's being screened anyhow.
~ Bernard Wolfe
I've come to see that you can limit God is different ways. You can limit Him by thinking he can never work in spectacular ways. But you can also limit Him by thinking that only the spectacular is meaningful." - from "Dug Down Deep
~ Joshua Harris
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
~ Brad Meltzer
To see an almost certain horrible death--you know how crowds all sit at the edge of their seats, /praying/ subconsciously for a spectacular accident--and then to be whisked away from it so suddenly--brought to the edge of tragedy, and then to have their better natures win out, showing them how much nicer they always /knew/ they were--that was the supreme thrill.
~ Harlan Ellison
C'est ce que fait Dieu, chaque nuit. That's what God has to do every night on an infinite scale. He invented the whole universe, and now he has to pay attention to it. Otherwise all the stars will go out one by one. We complain that he sometimes doesn't get around to the things we want him to, but look up at the sky! Always more spectacular, the people say. Always more spectacular... Les gens en veulent toujours plus.
~ Heather O'Neill
Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.
~ Zach Galligan
We are not asking for something spectacular but rather for our sisters to find real self-fulfillment through wise self-development in the pursuit of righteous and worthy endeavors.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.
~ Richard Dawkins
Attractions so astonishing they would capture the imagination of the entire world.
~ Michael Crichton
I wish they'd build a ski jump at the Grand Canyon; it'd be fantastic.
~ Eddie the Eagle
Love was truly a spectacular, sacred thing. Anthony knew that. He'd seen it every day of his childhood, every time his parents had shared a glance or touched hands. But love was the enemy of the dying man. It was the only thing that could make the rest of his years intolerable - to taste bliss and know that it would all be snatched away.
~ Julia Quinn