Quotes of Spectacle - somelinesforyou

“ I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere. ”

- Chris Bailey

“ Little Miss Broadway. ”

- Bob Hope

“ A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see. ”

- David Douglas

“ 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

“ To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them. ”

- Martin Mayer

“ A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths. ”

- John Wesley Powell

“ Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. ”

- James Polk

“ It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. ”

- Thomas De Quincey

“ Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child. ”

- William Saroyan

“ Several pantomine characters in Python made quite a spectacle. ”

- Graham Chapman

“ We see things not as they are, but as we are. Our perception is shaped by our previous experiences. ”

- Dennis Kimbro

“ We see things not as they are but as we are. ”

- John Milton

“ Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing. ”

- Guy Pearce

“ You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway. ”

- Danny Kaye

“ And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet. ”

- John Guare

“ But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change. ”

- Claudia Schiffer

“ Set your sights not just on the next few weeks... set your sights on the years ahead — because our vision will look that far ahead. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything. ”

- George Cukor

“ A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes. ”

- Howard Hawks

“ Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Walter Bagehot

“ Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles. What is that? It is the sun going to his rest. ”

- Thomas De Quincey

“ If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time. ”

- Josh Billings

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

- George F. Will

“ Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. ”

- George Santayana

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ The spectacle has changed, but our eyes remain the same. ”

- Joseph Joubert
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