Circus Quotes

278 quotes by 222 authors

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain… — Terry Gilliam
Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things.… — Wilferd Peterson
What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can… — Aldous Huxley
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt — Juvenal
The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you. — Ernest Hemingway
It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant. — Samuel West
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks the whip. But the really well-trained dog is the one that turns somersaults when there is no whip- — George Orwell
The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors. — Herbert Hoover
I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo. — Naomi Judd
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus. — Austin O'Malley
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself. — Francis Ford Coppola
When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining… — Peter Singer
Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable. — Cate Blanchett
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain. — Gerald Brenan
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no… — E F Schumacher
Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus… — Jonathan Winters
If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's… — Mick Fleetwood
I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls â€” you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd… — Doris Day
I dont have a place that I call home at the moment because theres no point. I mean, Im a traveling circus for a while.… — Idris Elba
Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique… — Johan Cruijff

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