Circus Quotes - Page 5

• You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Air, Spinning Plates, Guy

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• 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 trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

  Bob Dylan

  Beach, Memories, Crazy

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

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• When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Complaining, Tvs, Politician

  "Dons Or Crooners?: Three Lectures on the Subject of Communication in the Modern World" by British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1959.

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• I always wanted to play baseball and join the circus. Now I have both.

  Graig Nettles

  Baseball, Play, Wanted

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• I just had some of the same journalists that panned Electric Circus at the time, they just listened to Universal Mind Control and they loved it. And then they went back to tell me that Electric Circus, if it came out at today, it would've had a different reception. One of them told me, "Hey, man. You need to bring it out again." And I said, "Hey, it's cool. It is what it is."

  Will Ferrell

  Men, Mind, Different

  "Common". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 28, 2008.

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• I feel so guilty when I see orcas performing their stupid tricks in their little swimming pools, and when I see circuses or elephant abuse. I don't want to be in the same industry with these people.

  Sam Simon

  Stupid, Swimming, Elephants

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• I hate clowns and I would never do anything getting near a clown, I can't go to the circus.

  Ty Simpkins

  Hate, Clown, I Can

  Source: collider.com

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• A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.

  David Peace

  Brother, Soul, Gone

  David Peace (2010). “Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four”, p.28, Profile Books

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• When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Falling In Love, People, Film

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• Every time the circus comes to town, I can't help thinking, Somewhere out there, there's clown semen.

  Dana Gould

  Thinking, Towns, Helping

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• The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dream, Growing Up, Men

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• All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the circus.

  James Maxton

  Horse, Two, Ifs

  Opposing disaffiliation of the Scottish Independent Labour Party from the Labour Party, in 'Daily Herald' 12 January 1931 (often quoted as '...no right in the bloody circus')

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• Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a few pennies wth my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passersby." This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.

  Eoin Colfer

  Jumping, Giving, Orion

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• I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

  Steven Wright

  Guy, Laid Back, Looks

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• The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Black And White, Unique, Night

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Jan 20, 2016

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• The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Actors, Twenties

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• Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Yoga, Practice, Internals

  "The Power of the Last Practice" by Debby Kaminsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2015.

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• The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Entertainment, Venues, Ideals

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• You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

  Anne Lamott

  Recovery, Monkeys, Towns

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• The two-headed boy in the circus never had such a headache.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Boys, Two

  "Fictional character: Cuthbert J. Twillie". "My Little Chickadee", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Freedom, Liberty

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

  Juvenal

  Art, Philosophy, Food

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• I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

  Dontrelle Willis

  League, Want, Uniforms

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• I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.

  Eric Idle

  Audience

  "Eric Idle: the Pio Interview". Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

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• We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses.

  David Paul

  Stars, Night, Darkness

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