Quotes About Spectacle

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

A musical is what happens when text collides with motion collides with song collides with spectacle. And spectacle can be the human heart; it doesn't necessarily have to be a helicopter crashing.

I'm a really big fan of the history of wrestling.

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

We're entertainers. We're theatrical.

We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on.

There's no place more theatrical than history.

'Maury' and 'Jerry Springer' get so theatrical that it's hard to believe.

Three more fireworks shot up over the freeway, contorting into purple stars as they burst against the dissipating smoke.

It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

In war-as-spectacle, appearances could be more important than reality, because appearance often ended up determining reality.

ALL HAIL THE NEW ORDER!' chanted the crowd. It was a truly grotesque sight.

Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise.

Life is the greatest show on earth

Then she turns to Midnight and perches delicately on his lowered back. He rises, arches his neck, and carries Marlena from the big top. The rest of the horses follow, once again grouped by color, crowding each other to stay close to their mistress.

Ah, é uma praga, a vida que se exibe, uma verdadeira praga! Estamos numa época em que todos os ridículos filhos de Adão desejam evidenciar-se perante os outros, com todos os seus ditos espirituosos, esgares e tiques, toda a glória da fealdade auto-adorada, afirmando aos restantes - num transbordar de narcisismo que os outros interpretam como benevolência - 'Aqui estou para dar testemunho. Vim para lhes servir de exemplo'. Pobres espectros tontos!.

How great a spectacle! But that, I fear, Is all it is.

Welch Schauspiel! aber ach! ein Schauspiel nur!