Circus Quotes

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

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.

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

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

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

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.

We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.

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

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.

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

Damn everything but the circus.

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.

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

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

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

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

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

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

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.

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.

So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.

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 will happen.

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

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

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

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 time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!