Quotes with spectacle

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  • George Santayana Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Thomas Wolfe There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Walter Bagehot An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • C. L. R. James Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
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    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Bryan Ferry 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
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • George F. Will If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy 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
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Carl Bernstein The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Roland Barthes There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • T. S. Eliot 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
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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