Quotes About Spectacle

Watching a man's entrails spilling out is excellent entertainment, but the sight of his cock, well, that would be obscene.

Then Glenn Beck burned to death on his Internet program, right in front of his chalkboard, burned so hot his glasses fused to his face

You only live once. Life is a show

London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force that once exercised on character must be entrusted to Love alone. May Love be equal to the task!

London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilisation which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force that they once exercised on character must be entrusted to Love alone. May Love be equal to the task!

I couldn't help but wonder: are we pushing the idea of carnival too far, and turning everything into entertainment?

I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.

I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

The Greatest Show on Earth.

A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time.

A great center for gladiatorial combats, it boasted a fine amphitheater

It was strange how very bad men felt a need to live somewhere not just spectacular but slightly insane.

People want to see fighters get punched in the face.

When we are on the road, we do a real horror show - and it's pure entertainment. That's it.

I'm not a DJ. I play live and think we put on a show. That's it.

Before, when Bolt was in the race, it was about who's going to get second. You just come and want to watch Bolt run, it's always exciting because you know he always puts on a show.

I mean, you can't just stop WWE. It is an entertainment company. It puts on a live show every week and prides itself for being out there and working.

Formula 1 need to have a good look at itself. As a show, I think we need to put on a better show for the fans.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

And that too is human freedom, I thought, self-controlled movement. What a mockery of holy Mother Nature! Were the apes to see such a spectacle, no theater walls could stand the shock of their laughter.

If you ask most wildlife film-makers or biologists what the greatest wildlife spectacle on Earth is, they'll say wildebeest migration or the Great Barrier Reef - but to me it's in Alaska is the summer.

I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my brother play at Wimbledon.

Wimbledon is quite simply the ultimate championship, and I'd be the first to admit it was the one I wanted to win. A lot has to do with the history and the tradition: the grass courts, the royal box, the grand spectacle of it all.

I don't fight to win or lose. I fight to entertain people.