#spectacle

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

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#conservative #dew #friend #moving #off

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#culture #impossible #now #oneself #right

Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both Caesar and Antony, brave and clever men, saw none of this. What they saw was a woman who constantly transformed herself before their eyes, a one-woman spectacle. Her dress and makeup changed from day to day, but always gave her a heightened, goddesslike appearance. Her words could be banal enough, but were spoken so sweetly that listeners would find themselves remembering not what she said but how she said it. ↗

— Robert Greene

#art

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#appealing #beautiful #beautiful woman #cooking #dinner