Circus Tent Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.

Steven Wright

#3. Souls dance undressed/ together/ and like loiterers/ on the fringes of a fair/ we ogle the unobtainable/ imagined mystery/ Yet away around on the far side/ like a stage door of a circus tent/ is a wide vent in the battlements/ where even elephants/ waltz thru
pg. 31// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#4. But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

Pat Benatar

#5. Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

John Boehner

#6. #CleanPolitics overtook #CrazyKejaria as the most trending hashtag,

Anonymous

#7. It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

Luc De Clapiers

#8. I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall.

Annie Dillard

#9. He was close to Reacher's own height and weight, but slack and swollen, in a shirt as big as a circus tent, above a belt buckled improbably low, under a belly the size of a kettle drum. His face was pale, and his hair was colorless.

Lee Child

#10. There had always been something to worry him ever since he could remember, always something that distracted him in the pursuit of beauty. For he did pursue beauty, and, therefore, Margaret's speeches did flutter away from him like birds.

E. M. Forster

#11. Sometimes it was funny - the passion he put into each new phase.

Jonathan Kellerman

#12. I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. Whether the circus travels far up in the North, or down South, whether it takes place in a tent or in a building, it is always the same strange world that knows no distinctions of race or creed -- it is the same fantastic place of glitter, hard work, courage and heartbreak.

Patricia Bourne

#14. I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.

Erin Morgenstern

#15. Shan't I take that anshient circus tent?" said he, pintin' to my umbreller, "and lock it up in the safe?

Various

#16. This is slow work. . . .Is it not time for my pain-killer?

Samuel Beckett

#17. If poetry is a circus, then the Big Tent we're under has to have room for a lot of different freak shows.

Alan DeNiro

#18. Taylor and I both pride ourselves on having escaped that collapsed circus tent of epistemology - those acres of canvas under which many of our colleagues still thrash aimlessly about.

Richard M. Rorty

#19. When you look in the mirror and say, 'I love you,' don't worry if you don't believe it yet. Love is far more powerful than your limiting beliefs.

Cheryl Richardson

#20. The Winter we know has always been one of our own creation, a kingdom built on dreams. So you're right, Feige. We're all Children of the Thaw. Our own hybrid of the past and the future.

Sara Raasch

#21. 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

#22. I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."

Mitch Hedberg

#23. You know what the best thing about purses was? They could carry around books.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#24. Love has a hundred gentle ends.

Leonora Speyer

#25. if u don't get a miracle become one

Nick Vujicic

#26. I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

Zack De La Rocha

#27. Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

Honore De Balzac

#28. People stared more than ever on the train. Hagrid took up two seats and sat knitting what looked like a canary-yellow circus tent.

J.K. Rowling

#29. Point a light at me, and I'll start tap dancing.

Heather Langenkamp

#30. My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

Ray Davies