Quotes About Spectacle

an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly

The power of the new mass media made Grant's illness a national spectacle, with his doctors offering twice-daily updates on his condition.

Some of Washington's religious style probably reflected an Enlightenment discomfort with religious dogma, but it also reflected his low-key personal style. He was sober and temperate in all things, distrusted zealotry, and would never have talked of hellfire or damnation. He would have shunned anything, such as communion, that might flaunt his religiosity. He never wanted to make a spectacle of his faith or trade on it as a politician.

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

UFC is not a competitor to the WWE because we are entertainment and UFC is competitive sport. It's very different.

It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.

Elle pleuvait, sa vie, devant ses yeux, spectacle tranquille.

His life fell like rain before his eyes, a quiet spectacle

Zijn leven regende voor zijn ogen omlaag, een rustig schouwspel

Llovía su vida, frente a sus ojos, espectáculo quieto.

The most curious spectacle in life is that of death.

As a whole, a village fete in Russia is a saddening spectacle. It affords a new proof—where, alas! no new proof was required—that we northern nations, who know so well how to work, have not yet learned the art of amusing ourselves.

And, now, come to this spot Where the spotlight is hot And you'll see in the spotlight A Juggling Jott Who can juggle some stuff You might think he could not... Such as twenty-two question marks, Which is a lot. Also forty-four commas And, also, one dot! That's the kind of Circus McGurkus I've got!

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

proposed an antidote to the deadening impact of capitalist spectacle in what he named "constructed situations," which calls on artists to create moments that coax people out of passivity, rendering them the co-creators of what promises to be, according to Debord, a less mediocre life.

Wrestling is a business, it is show business and wrestling championships are props.

I am a Florenz Ziegfeld fanatic.

If the fans want a burnout, I'm going to give them a burnout. That's what it's going to be.

One of my favorite things to do when I wasn't competing was to watch the cruiserweights.

I know it's kind of cliche, but my favourite is still the first 'Hell in a Cell.'

There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions.