#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

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#go #i #i am #man #movies

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

— James K. Polk

#beloved #beloved country #borders #contentment #country

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

#courage #dramatic #final #less #magnificent

As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#disciplines #i #leave #level #people

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. ↗

— George Santayana

#life #predicament #spectacle

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#given #politics #spectacle #way