Circus Quotes

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

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.

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

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

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!

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

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

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

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

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

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

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

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

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.

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

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

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

I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

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.

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.

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

If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

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

If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus.

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

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

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

So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!

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.

I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

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

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.

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

The circus arrives without warning.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.

I'm very bad at packing. It ends up being a circus, throwing everything in there. You never want to come up short.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

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

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.

I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.

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