Quotes About Spectacle

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

You know, songs like 'Rock'n Me' were actually written to be played in large... for a hundred thousand people kind of gatherings. And a lot of what came out on 'Fly Like an Eagle' and 'Book of Dreams' was music that was put together to be played in big, big venues with big light shows.

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.

Yes," I said. "It is a bit over-the-top." "That's their world," Brian said with a shrug. "They seem to enjoy histrionics.

One example of a solid but inexplicable fact, ruling all human affairs - your fireworks won't go off while the crowd is around.

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

La muerte es, a fin de cuentas, el espectáculo más excitante en cualquier parte del mundo.

Military parades roll down the Champs-Elysees, but pedestrians stroll up ["East Meets West on the Champs-Elysees," Metropolis , March 2006, p73]

There's no business like show business.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

She's really beating the stuffing out of him. What do you think we should do? Sell tickets. - Riker and Worf

spectacle of Dorothy Thompson at Madison Square Garden — tall, fair, blue-eyed, and laughing in her evening gown at twenty-two thousand "little men" — was not a thing to be forgotten.

those thoroughly incorporated within the inexorable logic of the market and its demands find that there is little time and space in which to explore emancipatory potentialities outside what is marketed as 'creative' adventure, leisure, and spectacle. Obliged to live as appendages of the market and of capital accumulation rather than as expressive beings, the realm of freedom shrinks before the awful logic and the hollow intensity of market involvements

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

El mundo se contenta con muecas, se satisface con lo que da, sin comprobar su calidad; para él, el verdadero dolor es un espectáculo, una especie de goce que le inclina a absolverlo todo, incluso a un criminal; en su avidez de emociones, indulta sin discernimiento lo mismo al que le hace reír que al que le hace llorar, sin pedirle cuenta de los medios.

Alas! she is nothing now but a soul, a soul which beams upon her son and me; the body no longer exists; she has conquered suffering. Think what a spectacle for a father!

A showThat is really a showSends you outWith a kind of a glowAnd you sayAs you go on your way"That's entertainment."

DEBER Ningún deber es innoble. Lo que puede ser innoble es el espectáculo de gente que trata de no ser innoble.

My nates offer everlastingly the lugubrious spectacle of tumescence; no one can claim (and how many have drawn near!) that he has seen them in a state of normal quiescence, not even the shoe shine boy who attacked me with a knife during a moment of delirium. Ungrateful wretch!

The truth--a hideous spectacle!