Quotes About Spectacle

their lives were full of quiet drama, full of vague yet thrilling signs that life was not as the common run supposed it to be; they were among those... who watch life as though it were a great drab curtain which they are sure is always about to rise on some terrific and exquisite spectacle, and though it never did quite rise, they were patient, and noted excitedly every small movement of it as the actors took their places, strained to hear the unimaginable setting being shifted.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.

Everything bigger than life attracts a crowd.

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.

We exhibit at present the novel & astonishing Spectacle of a whole People deliberating calmly on what form of government will be most conductive to their happiness; and deciding with an unexpected degree of unanimity in favor of a system which they conceive calculated to answer the purpose.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

The wonder of life is in the miracle of life. There is spectacle, there is awe and there is incredulity. The blunder of life is in the greediness of Man from Abel and Cain to the City of Sodom and concurrently to the conflict in the Gaza Strip.

Without an element of cruelty at the root of every spectacle, the theater is not possible.

Every Tragedy, therefore, must have six parts, which parts determine its quality--namely, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song.

I've never been to a race car race before.

People go to car races to watch the crashes.

Everyone wants to see racing. This is what F1 is for and this is what it is.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It's hard to see how it pulls in fans.

Colour can raise the dead.

There's nothing like a event at The Garden.

It doesn't get much bigger than England v. Germany at Wembley.

It's amazing to see the Earth in its glory down there.

As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousness ? there can be no doubt that morality will gradually perish: this is the great spectacle in a hundred acts reserved for the next two centuries in Europe ? the most terrible, most questionable, and perhaps also the most hopeful of spectacles.

Et le spectacle tragique de la salle se terminait en une espèce de parodie, les vieillards s'agitant comme des enfants, les uns prêts à rire, les autres à pleurer, parce qu'ils retrouvaient si vivement en eux la trace de ce qui était perdu. Alors je me dis que c'était trop cruel à la fin et que jamais plus je n'emmènerais Nil chanter pour rappeler l'espoir.

Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.