Quotes About Spectacle

Hung be the Heavens in Scarlet

In principle, rememberance of the War could be a way to probe these scars, many of which trailed back to the 1860's. But reenactments did precisely the opposite, blandly reconciling North and South in s grand spectacle that glorified battlefield valor and the stoicism of civilians.

missing anything. The northern horizon, which had turned a bluish grey, showed orange again. The orange turned into copper and then into a luminous russet. Red tongues of flame leaped into the black sky. A soft

Everyone stops for a giant on a unicycle.

It was dramatic, as it should be. Without drama, what is ritual?

Is the daily spectacle of a revolving universe "illusory"? No, it is real, but it doesn't involve the cosmos alone. It involves our relation with the sun and the stars. We understand it by asking ourselves how we move. Cosmic movement emerges from the relation between the cosmos and ourselves.

We are treated to an awesome sight.

Every mummer needs a dancing bear.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

The eye is the jewel of the body.

Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats, storytellers dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

Surely there can be little in this world more awful than the spectacle of a strong man in the moment when he is utterly weak and broken.

I was really into more over-the-top, entertaining kind of characters, larger-than-life types of things. That's the part of wrestling that I really enjoyed.

When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.

I wanted to develop a hypnosis show that no-one had ever seen before, so I made it very topical and interesting. I've created a UFC fight night every night on stage, where I hypnotise twenty people into thinking they're mad, crazed UFC fans, and the energy is unbelievable.

There's nothing like going to real live UFC events. It's unbelievable.

Walking out in front of 80,000 spectators was unbelievable.

The Champions League is unbelievably big. The whole show before, the fans, the players you play against, the people who are going to watch the game, the pressure - it's very special.

He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.

Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."

'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.

...all the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade.

Let's make it flashy!

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!