Quotes of: Spectacles Keyword

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Paul Ricoeur

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Walter Bagehot

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

The Balcony

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

Harrison Ford

i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.

Jean-Luc Godard

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

John Hancock

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

Roman Polanski

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

Ronald Steel

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

The Society of the Spectacle

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

Henrik Ibsen

I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.

John Stuart Mill

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

Winston S. Churchill

The tragic fear and pity may be aroused by the Spectacle; but they may also be aroused by the very structure and incidents of the play—which is the better way and shows the better poet. The Plot in fact should be so framed that even without seeing ...

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

John F. Kennedy

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.

E.B. White

The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.

John Tyler Bonner

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

George Will

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

Jan de Bont

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

The Society of the Spectacle

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

Guy Debord