Quotes About Spectacle

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

It's all about the special effects.

Magic is really performing special effects live.

As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society - which interests the heart. Every day, you may see something new, magnificent & beautiful; every night, you may see a spectacle which astonishes & enchants the imagination.

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

He is better than me in everything. I can only learn from Simone: he is a modern coach and seeing his Lazio side is a spectacle.

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Enthusiasm is always an interesting spectacle. When it expresses itself with an honest and artless eloquence, it is difficult to listen to it and not, in some degree, to catch the flame.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

Of course we always want to win, and train for it, but I also care about the quality of my performance. I want to provide a great spectacle for those who are at home.

Well, I feel like the campy, plush spectacle of the Bridgerton' world is only going to get more pronounced in the best way possible.

The spectacle of a good bar fight, properly executed and healthily ended, is not merely annoying boorishness. The best of them - an admittedly minor slice - are shaded with the elements of high art.

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.

In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.

I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry, and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make from moment to moment in our lives, and in our frenzy, as something that's as out there as alien life.

I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me.