Quotes About Spectacle

Allà dins hi havia viscut gent. De la vanitat, de l'odi, de les miques d'amor, en quedava la pols i un trist espectacle d'esplendor i d'oblit.

The ocean was a molten gold. A drum roll sent the crowd into a frenzied cheering which reached a fevered pitch when the ocean swallowed the sun in a kinetic bolt of color representing the entire spectrum of light. Matt studied Shelly as she watched awed. The child-like delight on her face was captivating.

So a contemporary wedding is like the Olympic Games, a spectacle of detailed research and preparation but lasts only a short time. Even if it all goes according to plan, a wedding is over in a day, much of it spent being ordered around by photographers, and when the audience is gone and the costumes returned to their boxes (never again to be taken out), an ordinary man and woman look to each other and think: 'Is this all it is?

This is why the license plates say Beautiful British Columbia, and I realized just how much I would miss it. But all this natural beauty exists only in response to rain, I reminded myself, and the occasional day of technicolor spectacle was bought and paid for with weeks and weeks of dull, damp gray. I wasn't going to miss the gray. If

The descent of sport into spectacle is not unique to the age of genetic engineering. But it illustrates how performance-enhancing technologies, genetic or otherwise, can erode the part of athletic and artistic performance that celebrates natural talents and gifts.

If I went to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, I didn't go for the horse or the elephant – I went for the freak show in the back: the one-breasted man; the half-bearded woman (in other words, the people who today have become politicians). In my day they were in the back room of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey

And who could forget the sixteenth-century popular Parisian pastime of cat burning, in which a terrified feline was gradually lowered into a fire while "spectators, including kings and queens, shrieked with laughter as the animals, howling with pain, were singed, roasted, and finally carbonized.

vamos, que el sistema del espectáculo, obligado a producir un consenso repugnante, se había venido abajo hacía mucho tiempo bajo el peso de su propia insignificancia.

Luís Bernardo estava petrificado pela beleza e pelo pavor daquele espetáculo: tivessem-lhe dito que o mundo inteiro já acabar naquele instante, e ele teria acreditado.

It looked like a Roman candle to me.

kad je ve? cirkus, neka svijet i vidi cirkus!

As politics devolves into pure spectacle, people begin to relate to their political leaders in the same way they relate to their favorite entertainers and sports stars.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.40

Having scanned the faces of the spectators, Andre mounted the wagon, stood on the coffin, removed his hat, and lowered his shirt collar. "It will be but a momentary pang,' Dr. James Thacher heard him say. Seizing the noose, Andre brought it over his head, tied a knot under his left ear, and placed a handkerchief over his eyes. When asked for his last words, the British officer raised his handkerchief. 'I pray you to bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man.

Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

All of Cadiz turned out to watch the fleet go.

Sportsman's Hall offered four sporting events: rat killing by a weasel, rat killing by a dog, rat killing by a man, and dogfighting.

The most repulsive and grotesque spectacle is that of the superiority of a living professor over a dead genius.

Das widerlichste und groteskeste der Schauspiele ist das der Überlegenheit des lebenden Professors über das tote Genie.

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.

in his mind, nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read some book or other.