Best 137 quotes in «circus quotes» category

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!

So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.

The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on Earth I suppose.

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 may happen.

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus

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.

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

The circus arrives without warning.

The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.

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.

The main thing I like about New Yorkers is that they understand that their lives are a relentless circus of horrors, ending in death. As New Yorkers, we realize this, we resign ourselves to our fate, and we make sure that everyone else is as miserable as we are. Good town.

The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.

The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.

Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.

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.

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

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

We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

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.

You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross." You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

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.

When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

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

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.

Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

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

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

And there was nothing quite like the surprise attack of a snarling black bear, even one missing all forty-two teeth, to urge someone back to work. Waking up with several hundred mud-encrusted, reeking pounds on top of you — your neck suffering a hickey of epic proportions — just pushed the limits on what was tolerable.

Alecto… what do you think would happen if people found out about you? Your abilities, your life, Mearth’s super 8 films, those powers of yours… how would they react?” “I don’t know,” said Alecto, “but ordinary people like a show, especially when it’s a disturbing one. They enjoy seeing misery… probably because it allows them to pretend that they themselves are not so miserable, too. Also, they would probably find out about you, how you know about Personifications, how you saw the films… they would put us in cages and throw peanuts at us, I guess.” “All joking aside, Alecto.…” “Who is joking, Mandy Valems?

But when I catch my expression in my floor-length mirror, a dark scowl tightens my facial muscles. It's my normal look, unforturnately. I have RBF (resting bitch face). It's one-hundred percent real.