Circus Quotes - Page 3

• It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

  Samuel West

  Running, Accountants, Hard

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• But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

  Pat Benatar

  Heart, Soul, Tents

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• Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

  John Lydon

  Want, Messages, Punk

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• The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn't do if your life depended on it.

  Robert Benchley

  Eye, School, Men

  Life Magazine, April 14, 1921.

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• Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.

  Bob Phillips

  Suffering, Engagement, Firsts

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• There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

  Brian Molko

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Freak

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• Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

  Jane Seymour

  Mom, Mother, Believe

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• Tears and fears and feeling proud
  To say I love you, right out loud
  Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
  I've looked at life that way.
  But now old friends are acting strange
  They shake their heads, they say I've changed
  Something's lost, but something's gained
  In living every day
  I've looked at life from both sides now
  From win and lose, and still somehow
  It's life's illusions I recall
  I really don't know life at all

  Joni Mitchell

  Dream, Song, Love You

  "Both Sides Now" (song) (1967)

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• 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 and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love, Death, Novelists

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

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• One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

  Christopher Moore

  One Day, Rolling, Good Times

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.79, Zondervan

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• 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. Maybe you should think of going-literally or symbolically- to a circus today, where you'll see stunts you never dreamed possible. The novelty and originality there may stimulate what you need more of in this life. Have the daring to take a flight for the idea you believe in!

  Wilferd Peterson

  Believe, Thinking, Errors

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• I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Tired, Trying, Together

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.300, Random House

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• I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.

  Tony Curtis

  Summer, Real, Moving

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• A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

  H. L. Mencken

  Couple, Political, Baptism

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• Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Maidens, Cases, Capable

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• Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny Marriage, Advertising, Deals

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• A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

  Burt Lancaster

  Mother, Rewards, Like A Mother

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• I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Thinking, Ghouls, Vampire

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• 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 all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel.

  Steven Wright

  Mind, Trying, Looks

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• What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Wise, Running, Baby

  "The New York Times Biographical Service, Volume 32". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (p. 224), 1975.

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• Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can.

  Edie Falco

  Mother, Baby, Elephants

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• 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 my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

  Sara Gruen

  Running, What If, Three

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• Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Cracks, Trainers

  "The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945".

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• Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vulgarity Is, Sometimes, Clown

  "London Music in 1888-89 as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto: (later Known as Bernard Shaw) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars". Book by Bernard Shaw, 1917.

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• So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

  Woodrow Wilson

  College, Swallowing, Sideshows

  "The Priceless Gift - The Love Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson Wilson".

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