Best 137 quotes in «circus quotes» category

Newspapers take peoples’ tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

Painted and smiling, I balance on my trapeze. Luka is poised ten metres away, his muscles shining under the lights. The wooden circles in his earlobes twitch as his jaw clenches, unclenches, clenches.

Sometimes life asks us to make more serious choices than whether or not to believe a fairy tale

Risking your own life in order to entertain others is the height of stupidity.

The circus had been unlike anything I could ever imagine and I could not walk away. I wanted to be a part of the magic, create it and wield it with such skill that it looked effortless. I wanted to fly.

Taking a couple short backup swigs, Flint’s crippling headache started to release its grip, sort of the way he imagined an octopus would release an inedible bowling ball.

The circus collects the outsiders like a flame tempts moths.

Sorry cancerous Patients… life as for you has be cancelled... No circus for you MOTHERFUCKERS!

There's only two types of people in the world: the ones that entertain, and the ones that observe.

The man standing in the booth placing the tickets into her hands for the fun-house loomed largely in front of her with arms comprised of iron muscle. She remembered the gray cataract that covered over one of his eyes and the terrified feeling it gave her. She had been too young to understand the malady. To her; his eye looked as though it belonged to a creature from the sea. A frightening creature composed of reptilian and fish like attributes, which would pull unsuspecting prey underneath the darkest oceans. The smile on his face, with the crooked teeth, the cigar, contrasting with the bald head and unshaven face increased her sense of panic.

When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

Trump taught us how easily seemingly serious people can become profoundly idiotic. He turned career politicians into circus freaks.

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?

When we realize that we are not the mind, we do not exist as a labled person. We also experience “all circus around us” does not exist either.

A circus of stars, your dreams a trapeze, faces lift like mirrored moons.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

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

And now for something completely different...

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.

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.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

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.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

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

By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

Festivals are always fun. I went to a lot when I was younger and had money to go to them. I like playing at festivals. They're always kind of like a big, crazy circus.

For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.

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.

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

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.

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.

I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

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.

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

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus.

I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.

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.

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

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

I'm very bad at packing. It ends up being a circus, throwing everything in there. You never want to come up short.

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.