Circus Quote by Burt Lancaster Download Open image “A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.” — Burt Lancaster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Circus Like a mother Mother Parenting Rewards
The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Circus is what real life should be like. It's sincerity, feeling, emotions. All real. There are no lies in circus. There are artists working… — Princess Stephanie of Monaco Copy Share Image
They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars…… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share
“The Crazy Mother’s Guide To Raising Exceptional Children Is For All Parents Who Have Days When They Want To Run Away And Join The Circus. – Sonia D. Hebdon” — Sonia D. Hebdon Copy Share
“Circuses are about entertainment and juggling and animals and all that shit. Sideshows are about freaks, about people and the limits of acceptability. We… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“Tradition can not justify such misery. Surely people can enjoy themselves at a non-animal circus with exciting human acts instead?” — Claire McClennan Copy Share Image
“Life is a great big beautiful three-ring circus. There are those on the floor making their lives among the heads of lions and hoops… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
“This French circus collective specializes in group acrobatics: stacking bodies into towers, launching off one another en masse. It's an entrprise that requires trust,… — Lincoln Center Festival/Compagnie XY Copy Share Image
“Maybe the affecting aspect was that Madame Ko's tanukis sparked in an onlooker's muscles a kinetic memory of the innocent freedom of early childhood,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“But entertainment has the merit not only of being better suited to helping sell goods; it is an effective vehicle for hidden ideological messages.24… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you. — Burt Lancaster Copy Share Image
You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you. — Burt Lancaster Copy Share Image
I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married. — Burt Lancaster Copy Share Image
Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome. — Burt Lancaster Copy Share Image
They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did. — Burt Lancaster Copy Share Image
I'm-going-to-tilt-my-head-at-a-perpendicular-angle-and-then-attempt-to-extract-your-soul-through-your-mouth-like-some-giant-alien-sucker-fish — Burt Lancaster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
