The circus goes from town to town, so why run away to join…

I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or…

— Natasha Lyonne

Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them…

— Anne Sexton

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

— Bil Keane

Circus clown. That's a new one.

— Anonymous

Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...…

— Edward Eggleston

They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each…

— Erin Morgenstern

When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life…

— Edward Hoagland

So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and…

— Sara Gruen

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We…

— Naguib Mahfouz

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

— Bee

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have…

— George Sidney

When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say…

— Steven Wright

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it -…

— Norman Rockwell

The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops…

— Francesca Lia Block

My father used to describe how he'd love going, early in the morning, out on a location and waiting for the trucks to arrive…

— Barbara Broccoli