Quotes About Spectacle

Los quiteños salen a las calles y se acodan para gozar del espectáculo. La vieja está aterrada. Va a las ancas de una mula, amarrada, para que no se escape. Le han vestido con el escapulario de sambenito, le han cortado el pelo a rape, le han echado cenizas sobre el cráneo, le han puesto cadenas en las piernas y en los brazos. La multitud la culpa de todas las calamidades. Le escupen y escarnecen. La vieja no sabe lo que pasa, ni siquiera para qué la llevan a la ciudad de Lima.

Nietzsche said, the greatest deeds are thoughts, that the world revolves around the inventors of new values, revolves silently. Nietzsche was such an inventor, and we are still revolving around him. The spectacle consists in how his views have been trivialized by democratic man desirous of tricking himself out in borrowed finery

Anyone who has been privileged to witness the purée into which 170,000 bison (or 680,000 bisons' hooves) can turn eighteen motor cars has a pretty good idea of the concept of nothingness.

Llego el momento en que el sufrimiento de los demás ya no les bastó: tuvieron que convertirlo en espectáculo.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

Don't get me wrong: I'm a sucker for weddings. I'll get misty-eyed watching the union of two perfect strangers. But in some cases - and I need to stress some cases - I feel like we're getting blindsided by the spectacle of it all.

In an action film, you think of things that are almost impossible to do and yet you have to manage to show them as being possible on film.

Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.

A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

The crowd and the energy is incredible. I love going to Saudi Arabia because the energy is just awesome.

I have the best entrance in all of professional wrestling for crying out loud.

The Tour is the No. 1 event in cycling.

Damn everything but the circus.

Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the whole production with the effects - the best sound, the best lighting to blow the fans away.

Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.

I used to always like the tag teams because you can do, to me, more entertaining, cooler, crazier stuff when there's more bodies in the ring.

I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me.

Cirque du Soleil distinguished itself by being a circus with no animals. Before then, circus was partly about showing how man can tame other species.

Everything's show biz in the end

This might be the end of the world as we know it, but it's still show biz.

Wells points at me like P. T. Barnum showing off the dog-faced boy to the masses.

We're the trained dogs of the spectacle…it's devoured our lives, our art, our dignity. But existence is not determined by the whim of politicians.

?We need someone to get the room?s attention,? I said. ?Someone not afraid to make a spectacle—I mean, besides me, of course.?