Circus Quotes

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. (George Carlin)
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. View quote
Ben Hecht
CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
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. View quote
Claude Debussy
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. View quote
Charles Bukowski
We need a clown for this circus. View quote
Roger Federer
Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate. View quote
Johan Cruyff
I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus. View quote
Margaret Hughes
The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall. ... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn't do if your life depended on it. (Robert Benchley)
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Arakawa: I'd follow three simple rules: 1) Never go within two kilometres of circus freaks. 2) Never go near the butcher shop in Dublith. 3) Always spend under 300 sen on snacks. That ought to keep me alive! [chuckle]. View quote
Hiromu Arakawa
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
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. View quote
George Orwell
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism. View quote
Werner Herzog
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. View quote
E. W. Howe
Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs. View quote
Federico Fellini
I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities. But the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder." My parents judged that that spectacle would be too revolting and demoralising for my youthful eyes, and I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench. View quote
Winston Churchill
We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them." (John F. Kennedy)
Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus? View quote
Sara Gruen
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well. View quote
Stephan Pastis
Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will. View quote
Tippi Hedren
You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body. View quote
Philip Seymour Hoffman