Circus Quotes - page 7

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work. (Lewis Black)
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off." "You got it backwards, Dill," said Jem. "Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. View quote
Harper Lee
When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit. View quote
Christopher Walken
I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head. View quote
Steven Wright
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. View quote
Neil Gaiman
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. View quote
Brian Molko
Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung. View quote
P. T. Barnum
We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went. View quote
Terry Gilliam
Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the life of a cow on a feedlot, or a monkey in a laboratory, or an elephant in the circus, or a bull in a rodeo, or a mink on a fur farm. Then people would be awakened from their soporific states and finally understand the horrors that are inflicted on the animal kingdom by the vilest species to ever roam this planet: the human animal! View quote
Gary Yourofsky
Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us. View quote
Shane Claiborne
Damn everything but the circus!... The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions. (E. E. Cummings)
Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus. View quote
Billy Corgan
The entire history of Wall Street was the story of scandals, it now seemed to him, linked together tail to trunk like circus elephants. Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice. View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
In the whole world, there might have been as many as ten thousand people who were better than Sokolov at falling and rolling around on hard surfaces. Circus acrobats and aikido masters, mostly. Also included in that group would have been many of the younger Spetsnaz men. The remaining six billion or so living humans did not even enter the picture. View quote
Neal Stephenson
I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.' View quote
Larry the Cable Guy
For all we know, to a greater intelligence than ours the top of Mont Blanc may be as crowded as Piccadilly Circus. View quote
John Buchan
The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses. View quote
Julie Burchill
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. View quote
Idris Elba
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether of jail or of retribution after death - then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer in the circus with his whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself. View quote
Boris Pasternak
My house is basically a trailer. I live a circus lifestyle. I'm always moving. It's not always easy for people that live with me, but that's the path I chose. (Nicolas Cage)
A lot of progress was being made there at MIT. Those guys had molecules jumping through hoops like poodles in a circus. View quote
Tom Robbins
I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus. View quote
Neil Patrick Harris
To some people cricket is a circus show upon which they may or may not find it worth while to spend sixpence. To others it is a cult and a philosophy, and these last will neve be understood by the profanum vulgus, nor by the merchant-minded nor by the unphysically intellectual. View quote
Digby Jephson
I will spare you a gushy description of the dive itself, except to say that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent. View quote
Dave Barry