Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
I once went with my grandson to a county fair where you shoot a water pistol at the clown's mouth. We came… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
The surname Grobbelaar is roughly translated in English from original Dutch as 'clumsy,' so I think I was struggling from the start… — Bruce Grobbelaar Copy Share Image
When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
I just want to be known as a clown, because to me that's the height of my profession. It means you can… — Red Skelton Copy Share Image
I've lived kind of a sad-happy life. It's like, every time you take a breath, it's heavy, but on the outside you're… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
“- "I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!" - "Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers" -------------------------------------- "The trick, William Potter,… — T.E. Lawerence Copy Share Image
Donald Trump got the power of the government behind him now. He didn't have that before when he was just a clown.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Of all the dear sights in the world, nothing is so beautiful as children when they are giving something. Any small thing… — Margaret Lee Runbeck Copy Share Image
“Look. (Mark held up his hands for Nick’s inspection.) They’re all pruny and wet. I’ll never have my soft sweet hands again.”… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Established politicians are also bumping into a new cast of characters within corridors of legislative power. In 2010 parliamentary elections in Brazil,… — Moisés Naím Copy Share Image
She was this incredible mom. With each of her kids, she did something called 'time,' where she would spend an hour each… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.” — Salvador Dalí Copy Share Image
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and… — Guillermo Diaz Copy Share Image
The whole romanticized 'sad clown' thing, we gotta get rid of that. That has to go! That's just getting sick people to… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people… — Jennifer Carpenter Copy Share Image
I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was… — Adrien Broner Copy Share Image
I want people to watch us and think, 'They're idiots. They're clowns,' I want them to watch us and think Tommy Cooper… — Bob Mortimer Copy Share Image
I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
I spend 70% of my time laughing. I don't walk around all dark. I might take my photos like that because I'm… — Tricky Copy Share Image
When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
There are outfits in the golfing world that are acceptable, but when you walk off the course can make you look like… — Justin Rose Copy Share Image
The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular… — Tim Duncan Copy Share Image
I look like a hobo?" "Worse," he said. "Like a sad hobo clown." "And you like it?" "I love it." As soon… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
A clown always make the people happy. But once the curtain is close, do they realize that he needs someone who would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school… — Bobby Cannavale Copy Share Image
Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not… — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
My friends were the class clowns, but I was the one in class doing Michael Jordan or teachers for no reason. I've… — Lil Rel Howery Copy Share Image
“He was the class clown, the court jester, because he’d learned early that if you cracked jokes and pretended you weren’t scared,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
“I have frantically played the clown in order to distangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
