Circus famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
-- Albert Einstein -
Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.
-- Ally Carter -
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
-- Anne Lamott -
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.
-- Bob Dylan -
There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
-- Brian Molko -
We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.
-- Bronagh Gallagher -
A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
-- Burt Lancaster -
Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.
-- Cate Blanchett -
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 -
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
-- Charles Bukowski -
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!
-- Charles Bukowski -
One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.
-- Christopher Moore -
The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.
-- Claude Debussy -
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
-- David Niven -
Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.
-- Dean Koontz -
For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.
-- Denis Lavant -
What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
-- Donald Pleasence -
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
-- Edward R. Murrow -
Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.
-- Erin Morgenstern -
Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.
-- Ernst Lubitsch -
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 -
I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.
-- Gary Reilly -
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks the whip. But the really well-trained dog is the one that turns somersaults when there is no whip-
-- George Orwell -
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
-- Gerald Brenan -
I always wanted to play baseball and join the circus. Now I have both.
-- Graig Nettles -
We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.
-- Guy Laliberte -
The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.
-- Guy Laliberte -
I dont have a place that I call home at the moment because theres no point. I mean, Im a traveling circus for a while. Its weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, theres nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But Ive kind of gotten used to it.
-- Idris Elba -
If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus.
-- James Maxton -
All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the circus.
-- James Maxton -
Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.
-- Janusz Korczak -
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 -
Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!
-- John Lydon -
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt
-- Juvenal -
Yoga is an internal practice. the rest is just a circus.
-- K. Pattabhi Jois -
All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do. But we are dancers. We have to express and we have to project.
-- Luis de la Fuente -
If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.
-- Luis Figo -
I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.
-- Margaret Hughes -
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 -
I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.
-- Naomi Judd -
I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
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 -
Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.
-- Norris Church Mailer -
Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
-- P. T. Barnum -
But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
-- Pat Benatar -
I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
-- Pharrell Williams -
I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
-- Philip Green -
So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!
-- Rachel Renée Russell -
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
-- Richard Pryor -
I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.
-- Robert E. Howard -
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 -
It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
-- Samuel West -
Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?
-- Sara Gruen -
Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.
-- Shane Claiborne -
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 -
It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.
-- Tippi Hedren -
The bit I love is I really love acting, really, and the circus of being a celebrity is something I'm sort of not interested in. I find it strange
-- Tom Hiddleston -
Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.
-- Tony Dungy -
I hate clowns and I would never do anything getting near a clown, I can't go to the circus.
-- Ty Simpkins -
But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.
-- William H. McRaven -
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
-- Austin O'Malley -
I'm very bad at packing. It ends up being a circus, throwing everything in there. You never want to come up short.
-- Drew Storen -
The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.
-- Ian Astbury -
I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.
-- Karen Elson -
All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful in a society.They've always been useful as a way of critiquing power. The carnivalesque has always been useful as a way of the powerful being mocked in a public space.
-- Kehinde Wiley -
It's really wonderful to come to work and have each episode be different, in a way. They have similar structure sometimes with the villain, but we can go in any direction we want. If we want to do an episode set in the circus, we can do that. You know how precious that is. That doesn't come around a lot.
-- Benjamin McKenzie -
Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.
-- Bob Phillips
