Clown Quotes - Page 3

• The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

  Carl Sagan

  Laughter, Doing You, Doe

  Broca's Brain ch. 5 (1979)

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• Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Expression, Purple, Style

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.57

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• In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Artist, Order

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.215, Bantam

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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, Track

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.176, Random House

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• When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown

  Nora Dunn

  Feels, My Friends

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• Clowns have no respect for pie.

  Demetri Martin

  Pie, No Respect

  Twitter post from Dec 23, 2011

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• I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

  Jim Morrison

  Hilarious, Blow, Intelligent

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• The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Exercise, Drug, Twenties

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• Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

  Wavy Gravy

  Essence, Soul, Different

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• Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.

  Fanny Brice

  People, Laughing, Doe

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• I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

  Carrot Top

  Home, School, Class

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• I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

  Diane Cilento

  Teenage, Years, Bits

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• As a clown, you're letting go of all of your bullshit.

  Caitlin Rose

  Letting Go, Bullshit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

  Carole King

  Art, Ideas, Space

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• I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Cat

  Dennis Miller (2010). “Rants”, p.41, Main Street Books

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• I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Artist, Unique, Trying

  "Unleashed: The Story of Tool". Book by Joel McIver, 2013.

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• I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

  Nathan Lane

  Sad Clown

  "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.

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• By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.

  Kate Middleton

  Dressing Up, Pairs, Wonderful

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• My ideas are a curse.
  They spring from a radical discontent
  with the awful order of things.
  I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse.
  I play witch.

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Spring, Order

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Interviews, Bother, Humans

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• Everyone hates clowns," Otis said. "Even other clowns hate clowns.

  Rick Riordan

  Hate, Said

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• The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

  Chris Matthews

  Differences, Looks, Literature

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• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  Rainn Wilson

  Looks, Puppets, Fine

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• Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

  Karl Rove

  Real, Serious, Movement

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• My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Crazy, Father, Atlanta

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