Circus Quotes

So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!

— Anonymous

“Goddamn everything but the circus”

— e.e. cummings

Jesus, is the circus in town?

— John Mcclane

“Clowns are respectable only in a circus.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Not my circus, not my monkey.” Yancy”

— Carl Hiaasen

My class is not a three ring circus.

— Hetty King

Don't go to the circus.

— Angie Sage

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

— Jerry Coleman

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

— Guy Laliberte

Yoga is an internal practice. the rest is just a circus.

— K. Pattabhi Jois

“I was one in a million. I wasn't bright enough to realize the circus fat lady is, too”

— Stephen King

“If you don't want to be a gawker, you've gotta join the circus.”

— Patrick Califa

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

— Ernst Lubitsch

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

— Erin Morgenstern

“If i'm gonna be described as a clown for my actions, I might aswell be a whole circus”

— Bee

“But how can you expect a clown to stop a circus? Bill”

— Marcia Clark

“‎The world is fantastic...it's the ultimate absurd circus and I am shot from a cannon into the energy!”

— Michael Fitzsimmons

“You can’t avoid The Circus. At some point we all make the list. Don’t be afraid of The Circus.”

— William H. McRaven

“See this abdicated beast, once king Of them all, nibble his claws: Not anger enough left—no, nor despair— To break his teeth…

— Cecil Day-Lewis

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown… There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks…

— Harper Lee

My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill…

— Lenny Kravitz

Sometimes, if you go to the same gyms, the fans catch on to that, and they start hanging out at the gyms.…

— Seth Rollins

I enjoyed clowns when I was a kid going to the circus. Mainly I mean the good clowns, when you go to…

— Andy Muschietti

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

— Tony Dungy

Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own. As he kisses…

— Erin Morgenstern

Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like…

— Shane Claiborne

You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since…

— Ovid

“Circus is an absolute disgrace of the humanity! Real clowns are those who support and maintain the circuses! Honourable men want a…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

When I wasn't wrestling, I was always at the circus or at a show watching all these people - 'how do they…

— William Regal

Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the…

— Dean Cavanagh

All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful…

— Kehinde Wiley

All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things…

— Luis de la Fuente

Absolutely I'm going to be talking about it, because it's in the zeitgeist and it's happening. It's an election year. It's the…

— Chelsea Handler

“At the college where I teach, I'm surrounded by circus people. We aren't tightrope walkers or acrobats. We don't breathe fire or…

— Cathy Day

My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three…

— Gary Yourofsky

I don't know how satisfied you can be when we still have a losing record. We feel like we're definitely playing better.…

— Scott Skiles

So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those…

— Erin Morgenstern

“The people who run the circus kidnapped us from our parents. Since we got here, we have all been working in the…

— Magda M. Olchawska

“You damn fool!" one of the men grated in angry concern as they both squatted down on their haunches and peered anxiously…

— Judith McNaught

“In the span of one hundred and forty seconds I have transformed once again. I spill out of the seat, and to…

— Richard Thomas