Circus Lion Quotes

#1. These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

Allan Bloom

#2. In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#3. When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.

Christopher Walken

#4. I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. I'm very lucky to be a part of it.

Brian Van Holt

#5. I will not exorcise you - I'd miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair

John Geddes

#6. To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does not consist in knowing the names or the manner of many painters, but in discerning the excellence of a few.

John Ruskin

#7. No one can provide the heart it's own peace; you have to find it yourself.

Patrick Ness

#8. May your spirit be strengthened.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. See this abdicated beast, once king
Of them all, nibble his claws:
Not anger enough left - no, nor despair -
To break his teeth on the bars.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#10. 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.

Roberto Benigni

#11. I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

Peter Eisenman

#12. His lap looked like it was already occupied
by a giant boner. It pressed against his pants like a circus tent pole. Elephants could fit under there. A lion tamer and some flying trapeze artists. A dancing bear, or five.

Juniper Bell

#13. Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business.

Paddy Chayefsky

#14. People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

Hannah Kent

#15. The tiger and the lion may be more powerful, but the wolf does not perform in the circus.

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