Circus Quotes
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.
Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!
John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.
Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.
The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.
It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.
I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.
I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies
If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.
It's like running away to join the circus, everyone wants to do it when they're young but then you grow up and get a proper job. But somebody's got to do it or you wouldn't have the circus.
The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen.
Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.
Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.
Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.
The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
