Top Spectacle Quotes
I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.
Roman Polanski
St Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.
John Dyer
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
Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
Ronald Steel
I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.
Estelle Parsons
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David Douglas 
Victor Hugo All Spectacle Quotes
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
George Will 
48% of people like this quote
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
46% of people like this quote
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
Harrison Ford
45% of people like this quote
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy
45% of people like this quote
You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
Eddie Campbell
45% of people like this quote
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana
44% of people like this quote
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
43% of people like this quote
This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.
George Grey
41% of people like this quote
As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.
Nick Lowe
41% of people like this quote
Popular Spectacle Authors
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheVictor HugoGeorge SantayanaJohn F. KennedyJames MadisonJean de la BruyereT. S. EliotWalter BagehotHarrison FordThomas B. MacaulaySharon StoneBryan FerryJohn DyerTom WolfeGeorge Will
James EllroyEstelle ParsonsMary Wollstonecraft ShelleyEddie CampbellValentino RossiNick LoweGaret GarrettRene CassinJames K. PolkRoman PolanskiGeorge GreyChanning TatumThomas de QuinceyRonald SteelDavid Douglas
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