Quotes About Circus Clowns

#1. 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

#2. She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

Simon Doonan

#3. We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

Nicolas Cage

#4. You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross." You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.

Babatunde Adebimpe

#5. Same circus, different clowns, and without a doubt I'm one of them.

Lynda Barry

#6. Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

P.T. Barnum

#7. 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

#8. I hate clowns and I would never do anything getting near a clown, I can't go to the circus.

Ty Simpkins

#9. 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

#10. Cara, in the lead, came to a halt beside them, looking from one to the other. Still with the clothes, Lord Rahl?

Terry Goodkind

#11. Q: How is being at a singles bar different from going to the circus? A: At the circus the clowns don't talk.

Various

#12. Circus is an absolute disgrace of the humanity! Real clowns are those who support and maintain the circuses! Honourable men want a simple thing: Along with freedom for men, freedom for Animals too!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.

Naomi Judd

#14. A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room.

Ellen DeGeneres

#15. If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone's pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will just have you instead of someone else.

Steven E. Landsburg

#16. They've already gone to the gate; they're waiting for me there." I felt nervous then so I added, "I said I wouldn't be long - just getting a coffee.

Lucy Christopher

#17. The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

Horace

#18. If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

Christina Stead

#19. Knowing beauty, influence, fame, and privilege to be borrowed rather than bestowed, they are not easily impressed. They are not quick to envy or take offense.

Amor Towles

#20. I write the drama, I don't live it.

Dee Dee M. Scott

#21. Chewbacca are being applauded for destroying the Death Star. I could almost

R.J. Palacio

#22. We can make science personal, like a love story or your best friend.

Jim Sullivan

#23. To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

Alexander Pope

#24. It was not all that different from the circus, and it came to town in much the same way. Only instead of elephants and giraffes, there were cameras and microphones. Instead of clowns and cages and tightropes, there were production assistants and trailers and yards upon yards of thick cables.

Jennifer E. Smith

#25. When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.

Christina Hendricks

#26. Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

Naguib Mahfouz

#27. The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.

Andy Serkis

#28. Ah Ratty, what good times we'll have," said Mad Jack. "Just you and me, Ratty. We'll go cuttin' them reeds together, and if you're good we'll go to the circus when it comes to town and see the clowns. I love them clowns, Ratty. We'll have a good life together. Yes we will. Oh yes.

Angie Sage

#29. My favorite app is 'StumbleUpon,' because it just gives you interesting things that are sometimes exactly the stuff I'm interested in and sometimes just silly and funny.

Christine Quinn

#30. If you surround yourself with clowns, don't be surprised when your life resembles a circus.

Steve Maraboli

#31. My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join the army. Anything but this. He couldn't believe it. I agree with him: It wasn't a viable career opportunity.

Mick Jagger

#32. What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?"
"No, Julius. It's the end of the circus."
"I see. And these are the clowns?"
Foaly's head poked through the doorway.
"Pardon me for interrupting your extended circus metaphor, but what the hell is that?

Eoin Colfer