Quotes About Sideshows

#1. It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows.

Andrew Rosenthal

#2. So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

Woodrow Wilson

#3. Circuses are about entertainment and juggling and animals and all that shit. Sideshows are about freaks, about people and the limits of acceptability. We push those limits. If a circus is an escape, Fire said, a sideshow is a confrontation.

Chris Abani

#4. The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

Billy Barty

#5. Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.

Paul Di Filippo

#6. Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?

Haruki Murakami

#7. I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

Ray Bradbury

#8. War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love.

Pope Francis

#9. Memorization is not the same as remembering.

Augusten Burroughs

#10. Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

Ray Kurzweil

#11. Thank God forgiven me of my many sins.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.

Bethany McLean

#13. The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

B. Traven