Circus Quotes

• Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

  Janusz Korczak

  Life Is, Moments, Spectacular

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• Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

  David Niven

  Work Out, Never Quit, Ends

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• Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.

  e. e. cummings

  Heart, Circles, Inward

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• The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fun

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• Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Mean, Humor

  "The G20 Needs a Permanent Home" by Craig and Marc Kielburger, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2010.

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• 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 he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

  Jodi Picoult

  Art, Believe, Guy

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

  Ben Hecht

  Time, Humorous, Moving

  "Elegy for Wonderland". Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Soul, Ache, Absent

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.147, Random House

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• Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

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• I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

  Albert Einstein

  Kings, Gold, Midas

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• A circus of stars,
  your dreams a trapeze, faces
  lift like mirrored moons.

  Imtiaz Dharker

  Dream, Stars, Moon

  Imtiaz Dharker (2007). “The Terrorist at My Table”, p.156, Penguin Books India

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• Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

  Cormac McCarthy

  Communication, Towns

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• When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Spirit, Common

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• The circus arrives without warning.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Warning, Night Circus

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, 2011.

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• But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.

  William H. McRaven

  Military, World, Want

  William H. McRaven's Commencement Address at the University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.

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• I think there are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show that there’s another way to live and respond to things.

  Tony Dungy

  Believe, Opportunity, Thinking

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• 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 stuff You might think he could not... Such as twenty-two question marks, Which is a lot. Also forty-four commas And, also, one dot! That's the kind of Circus McGurkus I've got!

  Dr. Seuss

  Thinking, Two, Twenties

  Dr. Seuss (1956). “If I Ran the Circus”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

  Juvenal

  Giving, Bread, Revolt

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• The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Unexpected, Finest, Pleasure

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.

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• I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

  Tom Robbins

  Believe, People, Secret

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• If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus.

  James Maxton

  Horse, Two, Ifs

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• So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!

  Rachel Renée Russell

  Freak, Enough

  Rachel Renée Russell (2012). “The Dork Diaries Set: Dork Diaries Books 1, 2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, and 5”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

  P. T. Barnum

  Clown, Hung, Peg

  Tampa Bay Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January/February 1990.

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• We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

  Charles Bukowski

  Triviality, Dies

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• 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… When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stars, Hands, People

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