Circus Quote by E. B. White Download Open image “Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.” — E. B. White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Circus Fall Knives Precision Victim
“As with other paired bracketing devices (such as parentheses, dashes and quotation marks), there is actual mental cruelty involved , incidentally, in opening up… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Survival, to judge from the racks of guns, knives, gougers, stabbers and garrotters on display, tends to involve homicide.” — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.” — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I wanna be where the commas will be But I need a hood nigga with the llama degree Get that limited edition Audemars, it… — Nicki Copy Share Image
And, now, come to this spot Where the spotlight is hot And you'll see in the spotlight A Juggling Jott Who can juggle some… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
“Isn't it odd, the attractiveness of type and paper and ink, bodying thoughts and descriptions? Isn't it odd how much the sight can teach… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the world of The Age of Innocence , a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
“To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches… — E. B. White Copy Share
New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. — E. B. White 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 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
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 of rain caught on Rafe's eyelashes, blinding him as the circus light struck them. He groped for the flap, that slit in the fabric that would reveal her to him. She was on the rope again,… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share