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Quotes About Spectacle

He allowed cruiserweights to get in there and tear the house down, something you'd never see on RAW.
~ Bryan Alvarez
From the ranks of the Richmond militia across the square, a thin-shouldered infantryman glared at the hooded figure on the scaffold. The militiaman's eyes were dark with excitement, as if he had quite lost himself in the spectacle. He was Private John Wilkes Booth.
~ Burke Davis
Tout grand port maritime offre, aux alentours de ses quais, le spectacle d'étrangers des plus bizarres et des plus hétéroclites. Même dans Broadway et Chesnut Streets, il
~ Herman Melville
spectacle d'étrangers des plus bizarres et des plus
~ Herman Melville
Customers at a marathon do not have to be prepared for their excitement. When anything happens they get excited all at once. In that respect a marathon dance is like a bullfight.
~ Horace McCoy
estos maratones de baile guardan bastante parecido con las corridas de toros.
~ Horace McCoy
I said, I know why you're afraid to fight with me." And why is that?" If he flexed again, I'd have to implement emergency measures. Maybe I could kick some sand at him or something. Hard to look hot brushing sand out of your eyes. You want me." Oh boy. You can't resist my subtle charm, so you're afraid you're going to make a spectacle out of yourself." You know what? Don't talk to me.
~ Ilona Andrews
Hey, would you look at that shit? I turned on my heel. The patrons who'd fled at the first hint of trouble had come back and were enjoying the spectacle. Clear out! I barked. They paid me no mind. Asshole innocent bystanders.
~ Ilona Andrews
When you play football, you want to see something like a trick play or something that is very exciting. You want to give the crowd something to be happy about.
~ JuJu Smith-Schuster
I'd do the Mount St. Helen's trick, where the smoke comes out of the top. I wouldn't even have to look at people. I'd hear that 'Ahhhh!'
~ Tom Noddy
Movies are like magic tricks.
~ Jeff Bridges
You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody's going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Of course, Oliver Stone is not Donald Trump. But he shares with him a certain way of seeing the world and being in the world - and the luxury of persisting in this way of being, and even making a spectacle of it.
~ Masha Gessen
Don't be part of the spectacle; be truthful about what you care about and speak from the heart.
~ David Hogg
People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.
~ Nikki Sixx
When people leave my show, I want them to say, 'I've never seen anything like that in my life ... It's amazing. He's the greatest entertainer in the world.'
~ Michael Jackson
We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.
~ Duncan Jones
That's the problem with Domitian, isn't it?" said Lucius. "We never know what's real and what's not. All the city is a stage. Everything that happens is a spectacle put on by the emperor. One wonders if he himself knows any longer what's real.
~ Steven Saylor
As a historian, Titus saw a sad and bitter irony in such a twist of fortune, and he looked on the games themselves as yet another example of the futility of human affairs, the endless cycle of violence and larceny attended by empty promises, half-truths, and outright lies. The crowd, on the other hand, including his fellow senators, seemed merely to see the grand spectacle as it occurred in the moment.
~ Steven Saylor
Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee. -
~ Suetonius
Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.
~ Julian Fellowes
We'd rather have a grand spectacle of retribution of the 'wicked', than their silent walk towards redemption that our wishes questions the depth and nature of our love and hearts.
~ Ufuoma Apoki
I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, undeniable.
~ Mitch Albom
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~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon