Quotes About Spectacle

The people went mad over these big games and didn't care if Caesar became dictator or not as long as he kept them amused. But

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

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

PBR Bulls are the talent, the cowboys are the props and both are tasked with putting on a great show for the audience

The Chinese enjoyed the spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking the world was anything else.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their natural and surest support.

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

We've had a deal of bad poetry, haven't we? Suggesting the climax to this thrilling and literary spectacle. The Olla Podrida, my sweet-hearts, will now be set on the fire.

Lawrence arrossì, imbarazzato, poi sorrise. Un uomo innamorato è sempre uno spettacolo penoso.

The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

Looking back back at the one and only time I've gone swimming with a whale shark, I realize I was simply unprepared to submit myself so completely to nature. Or rather, humans' interpretation and preservation of nature, by adding 1.8 million pounds of sea salt to a giant tank of water so all these creatures could live and swim together. For science. For entertainment. For spectacle. Perhaps for a little of all three.

Words came floating toward us, pieces of sentences. Big, deep words magnified by stadium speakers: "… two-minute warning! … halftime show!" Darius and I locked eyes. In the same moment, we both knew where we were. We were at the Super Bowl. The thing we were inside jerked. Rumbled. Started to move. And then I understood—we were inside a giant stage. One of those enormous platforms they wheel out during the Super Bowl halftime. And we were the halftime show.

He finds that spectacle, as he leaves the vicinity of the assembly, in an unexpected place: through the window of the speeding train, in a flashing glimpse of "a workman doing something on the dizzy edge of a sky-scaling iron construction.

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

I just think action films now have... often, because you can do anything with CGI, people do. And I don't think you necessarily should. You lose that sort of human dimension, and you get all the stuff breaking the laws of physics.

A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.

Todo lo que nos rodea desde la cuna es un espectáculo pero la conciencia de ser espectáculo sólo se produce tras observar aquel cuerpo desnudo que por primera vez es observado desde el lado de la desnudez.

Without a sense of history, all we have to guide us is the daily news...the god of speed....A steady diet of spectacle and crisis can undermine our trust that the universe makes sense and supports our well-being.

In a spectacle of cowardice and political opportunism, the politicians support Hitler and pass a new law.

It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.

A bout between champions has to be considered a big show.

As much as I love to watch movies, nothing beats being ringside for a championship fight in boxing.