Quotes About Spectacle

I love trainwrecks on live TV.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

So who wants to go witness the greatest takedown ever known to mankind?

The Mexicans relate that, shortly before our arrival in New Spain, there appeared a figure in the heavens of a circular form, like a carriage wheel, the colours of which were a mixture of green and red. Shortly after a second, of a similar form, made its appearance, which moved towards the rising of the sun, and joined the first.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

The world is full of things that are tragic or comic, heroic or bizarre or surprising, and those who fail to be interested in the spectacle that it offers are forgoing one of the privileges that life has to offer.

This was the lavish background against which I worked my horses at Nakuru. My entrance with Arab Ruta and Wise Child on the flat shore each morning just after daylight must have been as anticlimactic as the spectacle of three mice crossing a stage gigantically set for the performance of a major Wagnerian opera.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

Though personally I'm not a fan of celebrating with fireworks, it is beautiful to watch the sight from a distance.

There's nothing like experiencing the sights and sounds of a live robot combat event.

Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.

Citizens of modernity, consumers of violence as spectacle, adepts of proximity without risk, are schooled to be cynical about the possibility of sincerity. Some people will do anything to keep themselves from being moved.

Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle.

Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and an object of surveillance (for rulers).

It is often asserted that "the West" has increasingly come to see war itself as a spectacle. Reports of the death of reality—like the death of reason, the death of the intellectual, the death of serious literature—seem to have been accepted without much reflection by many who are attempting to understand what feels wrong, or empty, or idiotically triumphant in contemporary politics and culture.

Citizens of modernity, consumers of violence as spectacle, adepts of proximity without risk, are schooled to be cynical about the possibility of sincerity. Some people will do anything to keep themselves from being moved. How much easier, from one's chair, far from danger, to claim the position of superiority.

Living abroad facilitates treating life as a spectacle.

But, curiously, though Mr. Norrell was able to work feats of the most breath-taking wonder, he was only able to describe them in his usual dry manner, so that Sit Walter was left with the impression that the spectacle of half a thousand stone figures in York Cathedral all speaking together had been rather a dull affair and that he had been fortunate in being elsewhere at the time.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

Creo que los toros es la fiesta más culta que hay en el mundo. Es el drama puro en que el cual el español derrama sus mejores lágrimas y su bilis. Es el único sitio a donde se va con la seguridad de ver la muerte rodeada de la más deslumbradora belleza (...)

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

Whores hung out the windows like shreds of leftover Christmas decorations.

publicly raped by a specially trained giraffe, after which she was torn apart by wild animals.