Best 137 quotes in «circus quotes» category

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.

The circus collects the outsiders like a flame tempts moths.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

And now for something completely different...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.

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.

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.

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.

I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.