#spectacle

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#forsake #forsaken #him #man #more

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#audiences #big #brought #contemporary #create

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#gods #lovers #spectacle #two #witness

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#interior #sea #sky #soul #spectacle

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#fine #first #idea #obviously #opera

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#astaire #black #black and white #class #especially

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#fits #know #morality #periodical #public

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? ↗

— James Madison

#leaning #learning #liberty #more #mutual

If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#days #decrease #football #four #game

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#earthly #going #grandest #his #rest