#spectacle

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects. ↗

— Chris Evans

#amazing #america #captain #captain america #effects

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences. ↗

— James Buchan

#belief #cannot #city #complex #consequences

I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#day #exciting #follow #france #i

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#currency #debase #did #doing #fictitious

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

— George Will

#gone #job #lives #ordinary #spectacle

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

— Walter Bagehot

#also #ambassador #simply #spectacle

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. ↗

— David Mamet

#combat #culture #each #evolved #fighting

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

— Henrik Ibsen

#experience #second #see #spectacles #them

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#grooving #holds #horrible #i #long

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal? ↗

— Rene Cassin

#camps #could #extermination #form #given