#spectacle

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

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

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

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

Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion. ↗

— George Grey

#although #beautiful #breath #communicated #grand

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