Best 137 quotes in «circus quotes» category

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

My class is not a three ring circus.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can.

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.

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.

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.

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

One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

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

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

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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! 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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?