#spectacles

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles! ↗

— Charles Anthon

#been #book #dug #enormous #fastened

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#i #i think #like #movies #really

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big. ↗

— Kate Greenaway

#beautiful #behind #beyond #big #childish

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! ↗

— John Hancock

#george #guess #his #i #king

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#author #i #i am #see #seeing

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

#ever #find #happiness #her #hunting

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. ↗

— Guy Debord

#conditions #directly #everything #immense #into

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#experience #second #see #spectacles #them

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

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