Circus Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Circus
Circus Quotes & Sayings
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Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
— David Niven
Whatsa mattah allee time talkee talk bear business? Me no savvee bear business. You no like this Gloddam show, you go somewhere else.
— Charles G. Finney
I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.
— Georgie Fame
Now you know about it, and you can do whatever you want to it.
— Erin Morgenstern
Damn everything but the circus.
— Corita Kent
That it's possible to be against the circus, not because you're afraid to die there, but because it's wicked and wrong.
~Aurelia, 152 — Lynne Reid Banks
~Aurelia, 152 — Lynne Reid Banks
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.
— Eric Stonestreet
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
— Neil Gaiman
What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!
— Eric Idle
Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.
— Jerry Coleman
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
— K.A. Applegate
Just because I don't look like a freak show, it doesn't mean I'm not part of the circus...
— Colin Watts
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit.
— Kin Hubbard
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
— George Bernard Shaw
To the dump kids, it also seemed perfectly logical that they were driven to the circus by a transvestite prostitute.
— John Irving
If poetry is a circus, then the Big Tent we're under has to have room for a lot of different freak shows.
— Alan DeNiro
Despair is the constant companion of the clown.
— Angela Carter
Not his circus, not his monkeys.
— Tracy Ewens
This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.
— Erin Morgenstern
I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.
— Ashley Madekwe
Magic is secreand secrets are magic...
— Erin Morgenstern
I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others' backs at a circus.
— Gary Reilly
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
— E.W. Howe
We have no need for the past. All we need are the present and the future. - Ciel Phantomhive
— Yana Toboso
I'm slowly learning that my happiest, most special moments happen when the circus is at its peak.
— Emily Ley
Now the circus is open. Now you may enter.
— Erin Morgenstern
It almost contradicts itself," she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.
— Eric Morgenstern
I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.
— Jeff Mangum
I know what I'll do. I'll run away. I'll join the circus. I'll juggle cats. I have experience.
— Peggy Leon
The second officer had turned fully to look down at Vincent's saws. "Those are for dissecting dwarves and children," The Saw Man said, gravely.
— Jackie Trippier Holt
You no like this Gloddman show, you go somewhere else.
— Charles G. Finney
When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.
— Nancy Isenberg
Every time the circus comes to town, I can't help thinking, Somewhere out there, there's clown semen.
— Dana Gould
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.
— Robert Zemeckis
I was one in a million. I wasn't bright enough to realize the circus fat lady is, too
— Stephen King
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
— Werner Herzog
I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you.
— Erin Morgenstern
A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room.
— Ellen DeGeneres
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.
— Wally Schirra
Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.
— Erin Morgenstern
I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
— Pharrell Williams
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN
— Frank Luntz
Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day, give him some horns and he can be a Circus Seal act
— Josh Stern
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
— Baz Luhrmann
Lord knows, I need a little action tonight or my vagina might just run off and join the circus.
— Harper Sloan
Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.
— Orson Welles
I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.
— Robert E. Howard
That's bad luck: three on a midget. From At The Circus
— Groucho Marx
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.
— George Orwell
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.
— Erin Morgenstern
Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side.
— Sidney Lanier
I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
— Philip Green
No. Not my circus, not my undead monkeys.
— Ilona Andrews
Goddamn everything but the circus
— E. E. Cummings
Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.
— Ray Manzarek
For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can't showcase in Aaron Sorkin's work.
— Joshua Malina
Prediction is the best circus act of all. But it is just an act. It's a carny turn. Stop doing it.
— Warren Ellis
When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.
— Graig Nettles
For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.
— Denis Lavant
Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.
— Bob Phillips
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
— Richard Pryor
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering. ~ Unknown
— Melinda Curtis
Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.
— Tony Dungy
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.
— Nicolas Cage
We advanced on the enemy with all the stealth of a circus.
— Robert Leckie
His tongue swirls against my skin, and I gasp. His voice rough with passion, he rasps, "You're living fire. I burn.
— Amanda Bouchet
Tradition can not justify such misery. Surely people can enjoy themselves at a non-animal circus with exciting human acts instead?
— Claire McClennan
He looks funny in a suit jacket, like a bear dressed up in costume for the circus. I would never tell him that, though.
— Lauren Oliver