Top 100 Quotes About Circus
#1. The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.
Jay Leno
#2. At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
K.A. Applegate
#3. You only get one chance at this circus called life. Don't sit in the crowd watchin' it happen. You jump right in and be the ringleader. That's where you find your fire.
Kim Holden
#4. In the flat above Coraline's, under the roof, was a crazy old man with a big mustache. He told Coraline that he was training a mouse circus. He wouldn't let anyone see it.
Neil Gaiman
#5. Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.
Celia Imrie
#6. When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.
Graig Nettles
#7. The vector equilibrium is the zero point for
happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty
theater and empty circus and empty universe
ready to accommodate any act and any audience.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#8. I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."
Mitch Hedberg
#9. 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
#10. OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
A. M. Rosenthal
#11. I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.
Ron Ben-Israel
#12. Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.
Norris Church Mailer
#13. And this is the straight dope, right here. These people are not exactly human. They don the dress but they're like monkeys dolled up in the circus. They're clever and can learn, but that is all.
Philip K. Dick
#14. I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.
Danny Huston
#15. Because we lack sufficient financial clout to establish a permanent place for such learning, we have this traveling circus of experts who roam from town to town, event to event, squeaky-wheeled suitcases of samples in tow.
Clara Parkes
#16. Q: How is being at a singles bar different from going to the circus? A: At the circus the clowns don't talk.
Various
#17. I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.
Robert E. Howard
#18. I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.
Francis Lawrence
#19. How many of these children would one day be queer? How many would be felled by the acronym? How many by something else? How many would forget the circus? How many would never see it at all? How many would join?
Trebor Healey
#20. For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion, at least one or two times a year-I am not speaking here to the real enthusiasts, they know better than I what they have to do.
Adrienne Monnier
#21. 'The Hobbit's a big gig. It's a huge circus that you become a part of.
Martin Freeman
#22. 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.
Katie McGrath
#23. Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks.
Jonathan Winters
#24. But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.
Toby Jones
#25. And while I want to spare Mia the circus, I don't care if the whole world knows we're together.
Gayle Forman
#26. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic.
Erin Morgenstern
#28. When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.
Nancy Isenberg
#29. Personally, nothing would surprise me any more. If my father announced that he was really a Russian agent or my mother ran away with a circus knife thrower, I wouldn't raise an eyebrow.
Sue Townsend
#30. My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.
Roberto Aguire
#31. I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life and noted all were too consumed on their own juggling act to see. This is when I learned to have fun, and kick the balls instead.
Stefanie Schneider
#32. This had been a bad section of town before the Circus moved in and brought in money, which attracted other businesses. The area had been gentrified not because of some government interference, but by good old-fashioned capitalism, which was one of Jean-Claude's favorite things.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#33. It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
Samuel West
#34. I was born and raised in New York and I'm of an age where I want to just be home. But, you know, when you sign up to be an actor it's like joining the circus and the circus is not always going to be in your hometown.
Dean Winters
#35. Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks [...] He wonders if the poem of the circus could possibly be bottled.
Erin Morgenstern
#36. 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
#37. Oh my God. I just got dumped by a red headed mortician in a funeral home named Crummy's, after pretending to be a circus freak at a visitation I had just crashed. I was pretty sure there'd be no bouncing back from this. -Dakota Bombay
Leslie Langtry
#38. Vine, the Ringling Brothers circus, Friendster, horseshoes, pay phones, typewriters, etc. Things go out of business. Don't think it can't happen to Madison Avenue. Adapt or die.
Andrew Essex
#39. Cirque du Soleil means Circus of the Sun. When I need to take time to reenergize, I go somewhere by the ocean to sit back and watch the sunsets. That is where the idea of 'Soleil' came from, on a beach in Hawaii, and because the sun is the symbol of youth and energy.
Guy Laliberte
#40. Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.
Orson Welles
#41. I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
Emmanuelle Beart
#42. 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
#43. When people do something extraordinarily well, it's self-evident. It could be art. It could be a circus, whatever it is, where people are doing incredible things. It's self-evident. You know that it's beautiful. You know that it's very difficult, but it looks easy.
Gabe Polsky
#44. I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.
James Iha
#45. Do I have to thank Colleen again? God, I'm so sick of thanking Colleen. Shit, she's so great, you know? Thank you, Colleen. You've made a circus out of our friendship. Filthy Muggle.
Tarryn Fisher
#46. In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
Bil Keane
#47. I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness ...
Jean Rhys
#48. I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
K.A. Applegate
#49. The circus had been unlike anything I could ever imagine and I could not walk away. I wanted to be a part of the magic, create it and wield it with such skill that it looked effortless. I wanted to fly.
Laura Lam
#50. As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus.
Robert Sean Leonard
#51. I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre ... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.
Oleg Kulik
#52. 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
#53. I don't get to do a lot of fight scenes on 'Sanctuary,' but I'm a trained fighter; I've been doing martial arts for years and, you know, I'm very active physically; I used to be a circus performer.
Ryan Robbins
#54. Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
Laura Mvula
#55. My circus train pulls through the night
Full of lions and trapeze artists
I'm done with elephants and clowns
I want to run away and join the office
Mike Doughty
#56. I don't think we can do it any other way," Nick said practically. "The circus is going to make a big fuss about it." It was all part of the hype of being circus stars, but
Danielle Steel
#57. Shan't I take that anshient circus tent?" said he, pintin' to my umbreller, "and lock it up in the safe?
Various
#58. The circus goes from town to town, so why run away to join it? It should be, I've decided to wait for the circus to come.
Dana Gould
#59. Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now.
It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.
Eminem
#60. Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own.
As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.
Erin Morgenstern
#61. I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
Tom Robbins
#62. When someone makes a Family Circus reference and everyone on the room laughs, I'm in the wrong room.
Josh Hanagarne
#63. I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!
George Sidney
#64. Lord knows, I need a little action tonight or my vagina might just run off and join the circus.
Harper Sloan
#65. I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.
Jeff Mangum
#66. David is in the entertainment business, which is what people in his line of work call television news these days. A Roman circus of information and opinions.
Noah Hawley
#67. If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.
Philippe Petit
#68. Same circus, different clowns, and without a doubt I'm one of them.
Lynda Barry
#69. I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.
Jason Reitman
#70. I fell asleep in an empty field, but woke up at the circus.
J.J. Howard
#71. Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.
Tony Dungy
#72. He saw that it wasn't just a circus, but an arena, just like everywhere.
Henry Miller
#73. You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don't need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.
Greg Behrendt
#74. I welcome newcomers to cons, or 'con-virgins' as I like to call them, by saying 'Welcome to the 'Supernatural' Circus,' and I mean it. We take pride as a cast to deliver a show that not only entertains the fans but ourselves, Creation Entertainment, and everyone involved on both sides.
Matt Cohen
#75. Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they've become a circus.
Mark McKinnon
#76. I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I'm joining the circus. Although I'm happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.
Anne Tyler
#77. What worries me," he adds, "is that this circus-like atmosphere may have scared off many young scientists. It actually has a chilling effect. It prevents scientists from participating in the public discourse, because they fear they, or their department head, will be threatened.
Jane Mayer
#78. I felt as if I'd been spun around fifty times then released into the middle of a circus and told to have fun.
Rick Riordan
#79. This is the marketplace of political ideas. This is how America operates. It's a free market. It's free-wheeling. From the outside, it looks unpredictable. There's a circus-like free market.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#80. I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
Al Lewis
#82. When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.
Frederick Lenz
#83. Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin
#84. Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
Gerald Brenan
#85. The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
Maxim Gorky
#86. There are tents, I am certain, that I have not discovered in my many visits to the circus. Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened. -Friedrick Thiessen, 1896
Erin Morgenstern
#87. I think there are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show that there's another way to live and respond to things.
Tony Dungy
#88. The two-headed boy in the circus never had such a headache.
W.C. Fields
#89. If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.
Mick Fleetwood
#90. A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.
David Peace
#91. 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
#92. Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.
Erin Morgenstern
#95. I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.
Ben Mendelsohn
#96. I feel 'The Night Circus' has a complete story arc in one book. I like it as a single volume. It feels complete to me, and I wouldn't want to stretch it out into something it's not.
Erin Morgenstern
#97. Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.
From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars
Rivera Sun
#98. I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
Francesca Annis
#99. The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.
Julie Burchill
#100. KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.
Mike Wilson
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