circus Quotes

In our circus, everyone wants to be a clown.

The difference between politics and the circus is more serious than it seems at first glance. In the circus they scare to entertain; at rallies they entertain, but then it becomes scary.

I\'m the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star.

I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.

When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don\'t see a circus.

Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his \'being different\' gets in the way.

The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn\'t do if your life depended on it.

The highest paid clowns doesn\'t work for the circus at all.

If a clown enters a castle, he does not become a king - it is the castle that becomes a circus.

I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

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.

I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats and the dancing bears. He's willing to say things that are patently false.

Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.

As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

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.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.

I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls Ђ' you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd come back up? I've always been like that. I've always said, No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.

So proper for a circus girl,\' Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. \'We shall have to loosen those corset laces if we intend to keep you an intimate dinner company.\' \'I expected the corset unlacing would take place after dinner,\' Celia says mildly, earning a chorus of laughter. \'We shall keep Miss Bowen as intimate company regardless of the state of her corset,\' Chandresh says. \'Make a note of that,\' he adds, waving a hand at Marco. \'Miss Bowen's corset is duly noted, sir,\' Marco replies, and the laghter bubble

Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

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.

Every time the circus comes to town, I can't help thinking, Somewhere out there, there's clown semen.

Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. 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. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before.

When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining these animals, the whole idea that we should enjoy the humiliating spectacle of an elephant or lion made to perform circus tricks shows a lack of respect for the animals as individuals.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.