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Tag Name "Spectacle" (159)

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St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.
John Dyer
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.
C. V. Wedgwood
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.
Bertrand Russell
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
J. J. Abrams
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Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.
Rebecca Solnit
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ʺWe need someone to get the roomʹs attention,ʺ I said. ʺSomeone not afraid to make a spectacle—I mean, besides me, of course.ʺ
Richelle Mead
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Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed hasn't much to do with having good clothes. It's a question of good balance and good common sense.
Oscar de la Renta
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It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
Bertrand Russell
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The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is a means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it.
Neil Postman
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I'm not at an extreme, but I do think that Donald Trump is a self-created creature. But the media has feasted on his spectacle and he wouldn't live without the attention. He's repaid the favor by attacking the press, but that's generated more reactive coverage.
David Folkenflik
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Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.
Allan Sekula
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I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring because I'm the spectator and ultimately footing the bill for the spectacle.
Jonathan Gottschall
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The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.
Guy Debord
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When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining these animals, the whole idea that we should enjoy the humiliating spectacle of an elephant or lion made to perform circus tricks shows a lack of respect for the animals as individuals.
Peter Singer
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Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.
Aime Cesaire
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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
Ann Patchett
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He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
Guy Debord
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I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.
Rachel Cohn
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The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.
Denis Donoghue
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Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.
Andre Breton
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