Circus Quotes

278 quotes by 222 authors

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy,… — Christopher Walken
When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It… — Christopher Walken
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. — Elwyn Brooks White
I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70. — Pharrell Williams
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. — Woodrow Wilson
I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head. — Steven Wright
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 it… — Steven Wright
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and… — Juvenal
Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened… — Bob Dylan
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife… — Hunter S. Thompson
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. Itâ€™s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the… — Anne Tyler
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized… — Charles Bukowski
That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus — Groucho Marx
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town — Anne Lamott
We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've… — Robert A. Heinlein
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though… — Ralph Ellison
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands — Bob Dylan
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said.… — Harper Lee
There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never… — Charles Bukowski
You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that… — Jodi Picoult

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