Circus Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Damn everything but the circus.

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

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!

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.

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

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

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.