Famous quotes containing the words world and/or wrestling:
“In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn’t threaten us.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)
“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 (1915–1980)