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Quotes About Spectacle

It was like watching two unicorns fucking, he told her. All glitter and jizz.
~ Erin McCarthy
The spectacle of its governing is at present more comic than tragic; but the tragedy is very close.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I wish I could see the glow from the lights.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles forming in the street and parades coming from around the corner, and we know to greet then with distrust and apprehension: their intent is still to be revealed.
~ Eudora Welty
The spectacle therefore afforded us by the United States is one of technical brilliance and social blindness.
~ Aneurin Bevan
Don't go to the circus.
~ Angie Sage
Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed.
~ Anita Brookner
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
~ Thomas de Quincey
The suits are as similar as uniforms, and yet you can tell their individual qualities by how they respond to movement - the good ones ripple like wheat in a field and provide not a show of monotony but rather a spectacle of plenty.
~ Tom Junod
You need to let the drivers go for it, and if they bang wheels, too bad. It's fun, it's a good show, the fans are up in the grandstands, and they can scream and shout about it... that's good; that's what you want.
~ Jacques Villeneuve
The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.
~ Neil Postman
You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.
~ Dick Ebersol
Sprinkle in a bit of pro wrestling in MMA is good. You get the fans talking. They want that drama.
~ Colby Covington
Pro wrestling is entertainment, but people get hurt all of the time.
~ Booker T
Anything can happen in pro wrestling.
~ Drew McIntyre
Pro wrestling fans love what they watch, and they go out to enjoy and have fun.
~ Matt Riddle
I'm all for big production - I love putting on shows.
~ Derek Hough
I think wrestling was the most fantastical thing I was exposed to.
~ Dave McCary
People wear extraordinarily bright colours in India.
~ Michael Portillo
I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.
~ Xavi
The NFL wants to see teams put up points.
~ Chris Harris, Jr.
Without that real spectacle of a big, noisy St James' Park or Old Trafford or the Emirates, the certain beauty of watching a game of football even live on the telly is not the same as far as I'm concerned.
~ Steve Bruce
The sight of the cars climbing the hill opposite the pits during the Grand Prix of Belgium is, to me, breathtaking, incomparable, worth the journey from anywhere.
~ Robert Daley