Barnum Bailey Quotes

#1. I was making love to my wife the other night, I looked up. She was on the phone.

Rodney Dangerfield

#2. I believed that if I had the whole story, if I had the opportunity to really know the person I was sitting with, there would be nobody I could not love.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#3. Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

Anna Netrebko

#4. The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.

Jose Andres

#5. It's a Barnum and Bailey world,
Just as phony as it can be.

Yip Harburg

#6. Once you become very powerful and advanced, you must be willing to go back to school and start over, and go to a wise person who will show you the way. Very few people are willing to do that.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Truth is the summit of being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Should global energy prices rise enough, then higher shipping costs will curtail or slow the globalization of production. The consequences of such a slowdown would be global and serious.

James Peoples

#9. Devote yourself to reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.

Michael Parkinson

#11. The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.

Chetan Bhagat

#12. This bulletin brought to you from the Department of Duh.

K.A. Mitchell

#13. If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.

William J Doherty

#14. Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.

Lester Levenson

#15. Struggle was the explanation behind all the most troubling biological mysteries: species differentiation, species extinction, and species transmutation. Struggle explained everything

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. I'm actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey.

Erin Morgenstern

#17. If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

Gloria Steinem