#spectacles

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

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#effects #get #i #i think #movies

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#cure #pair #person #powerful #sometimes

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#else #someone #spectacles #view #yourself

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#earthly #going #grandest #his #rest

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