Circus Quotes

278 quotes by 222 authors

This is a really good circus. It has lions, tigers, dogs, monkeys and about any other animal act you can think of. There are a… — Howard Thompson
Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and… — Paddy Chayefsky
Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside. — Ernst Lubitsch
Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on… — Tom Hodgkinson
People would be in hysterics if they saw that. It's like, wow, he's a superhuman moron.... So he wears lipstick, has a little bouffant, and… — Robert Pattinson
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law. — Christopher Walken
Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the… — Jimmy Carter
I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out -… — Ron Ben-Israel
Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the… — Graig Nettles
The majority of what calls itself Christianity today is a circus. You've got a bunch of people chasing health, wealth, prosperity; chasing a good time,… — Tim Conway
Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can, — Edie Falco
Recently I stood in the desert, far out side of L. A., and watched the sun set on a circus tent from 1930. Every where… — Robert Pattinson
It's like running away to join the circus, everyone wants to do it when they're young but then you grow up and get a proper… — Katie McGrath
The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered. — Billy Barty
I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit… — Winston Churchill
It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more… — Jonathan Rosenbaum
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… — Gary Yourofsky
The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. — Ambrose Bierce
These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order… — Allan Bloom
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! — Charles Bukowski

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