Quotes About Circus Elephants

#1. We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.

John F. Kennedy

#2. 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

#3. May giant circus elephants shit on your lawn. May bug-eyed gargoyles eat your young.

James Ellroy

#4. Several days later he'd worked his way back to the late 1800s. The entire history of Wall Street was the story of scandals, it now seemed to him, linked together tail to trunk like circus elephants.

Michael Lewis

#5. I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully.

Amy Smart

#6. We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.

Norris Church Mailer

#10. 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

#11. I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief
even the dogs were howling.

Sara Gruen

#12. 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

#13. The Them hesitated. Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. They left.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

Neil Gaiman

#15. I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others' backs at a circus.

Gary Reilly

#16. We came here for a quiet, small, informal meeting - strictly business. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants and there's no two ways about it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#17. Toys to deftly pluck up like animal crackers and deposit safely into a crate decorated with friezes of bright circus trains carrying aardvarks, dodos, swift dromedaries, baby elephants, and plastic dinosaurs. A box of mixed metaphors.

Patti Smith

#18. 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

#19. The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what explains the education? How much is just a matter of my giving you a poor kid versus a rich kid?'

James Heckman

#20. The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

Ambrose Bierce

#21. You're in the gym eight hours a day; you're not preparing for cameras and running around and doing tour stops and making acting appearances.

McKayla Maroney

#22. But oh, my brothers, black folk ain't never goin' to be led from bondage without they has pride! Black folk ain't goin' to be free, they ain't goin' to have no spoonbread an' sweet cider less'n they studies to love they own selves. Only then will the first be last, and the last first.

William Styron

#23. 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

#24. A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

William Cobbett

#25. Knowing that there is no future that is possible or desirable, I experience the solace one feels on going back to sleep when the alarm clock has sounded.

Arthur Cravan

#26. If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

Isaac Asimov