Quotes About Spectacle

Very soon the heavens presented an extraordinary appearance, for all the stars directly behind me were now deep red, while those directly ahead were violet. Rubies lay behind me, amethysts ahead of me.

Znowu chcia?em umrze?. Mo?ecie to nazwa? egzaltacj?. By?em zapatrzony w siebie. Postrzega?em ?ycie ludzkie jako spektakl. A w?a?ciwie spektakl by? dla mnie ?yciem.

Any issue, wrote he, the front page of which failed to elicit a 'Gee whiz!' from its readers was a failure, whereas the second page ought to bring forth a 'Holy Moses!' and the third an astounded 'God Almighty!

Instead he adopts the position taken by Nietzsche in regard to the spectacle of history: it lacks intrinsic meaning, and the gods are indifferent to the fate of man, forcing him to seek to overcome them and in the end replace them with the image of himself. According

They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.

The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived.

Come one, come all! Prepare to be amazed by the one, the only - Mairelon the Magician!

We drew a decent crowd," I said. "It was good weather for a whipping.

Thronging the bridges and the quays along both banks of the river, a crowd of many thousands accompanied the spectacle with ah's and oh's and even some "long live"'s--although the king had ascended his throne more than thirty-eight years before and the high point of his popularity was long since behind him. Fireworks can do that.

We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.

Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt.

One day something will come through that will amaze us all.

Of course, it is most of all dirt that gives the roughness its edge; filth and vulgarity are natural, obscenity is joyous: with these the spectacle takes on its socially liberating role, for by nature the popular theatre is anti-authoritarian, anti- traditional, anti-pomp, anti-pretence. This is the theatre of noise, and the theatre of noise is the theatre of applause.

fulfilled with the grand opening there, on 3 September 1883, of the Gaiety Palace of Varieties.

Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.

I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.

And when all the people who had gathered for this spectacle saw what had happened, they returned home beating their breasts.

For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.