Circus Quotes - Page 2

• And now for something completely different...

  John Cleese

  Nudge Nudge, Holy Grail, Different

  "Q&A: And now for something completely John Cleese". Interview with Ian Brown, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 21, 2014.

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• The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Horse, Children, Animal

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.31, 谷月社

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• The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen.

  Claude Debussy

  Crowds, Dangerous, Virtuoso

  "Music in the Modern World". Book by Rollo Hugh Myers, 1948.

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• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Art, Majority Rule

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• My house is basically a trailer. I live a circus lifestyle. I'm always moving. It's not always easy for people that live with me, but that's the path I chose.

  Nicolas Cage

  Moving, People, House

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• I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

  Katy Perry

  Fighting, Balance, Trying

  "Katy Perry: 'I still believe in love' after Brand". Interview with Ryan Pearson, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 26, 2012.

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• The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.

  Guy Laliberte

  Energy, Sun, Youth

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• The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Yesterday, Warning, Announcements

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Aug 27, 2013

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• 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 and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks.

  Jonathan Winters

  Elephants, Purpose, Gone

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• Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Country, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

  E. B. White

  World, Shade, Way

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.106, Cornell University Press

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• Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Sea, Sky

  "Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, Laughing

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

  Guy Laliberte

  Way, Modern, Cirque Du Soleil

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• I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

  Philip Green

  Retail, Retail Business

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• Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Play, Trying, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

  Gerald Brenan

  Animal, Cracks, Language

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• 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 I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life, Glasses, Mirrors

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.28, Vintage

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• Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.

  Tony Dungy

  Thinking, Want, Way

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• I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

  Roberto Benigni

  Important, Lions, Remember

  "The Crisis of Crowding: Quant Copycats, Ugly Models, and the New Crash Normal". Book by Ludwig B. Chincarini, 2012.

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• Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

  Sara Gruen

  Running, Guilty Conscience, Hell

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.310, Hachette UK

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• 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 job. But somebody's got to do it or you wouldn't have the circus.

  Katie McGrath

  Running, Jobs, Growing Up

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• Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

  Ray Manzarek

  Rocks, Today, Rock N Roll

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• The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Autumn, Thinking, Smell

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

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• I can't focus on any one day, because I always have to be ready for the next. It's fun but frenetic - like living in a circus that never stops performing.

  Josh Lieb

  Fun, Focus, One Day

  Source: www.mtv.com

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