Circus Quotes

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

  Janusz Korczak

  Life Is, Moments, Spectacular

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

  David Niven

  Work Out, Never Quit, Ends

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fun

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• Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.

  e. e. cummings

  Heart, Circles, Inward

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• Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Mean, Humor

  "The G20 Needs a Permanent Home" by Craig and Marc Kielburger, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2010.

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

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

  Ben Hecht

  Time, Humorous, Moving

  "Elegy for Wonderland". Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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

  Erin Morgenstern

  Soul, Ache, Absent

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.147, Random House

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• When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Spirit, Common

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

  Albert Einstein

  Kings, Gold, Midas

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• A circus of stars,
  your dreams a trapeze, faces
  lift like mirrored moons.

  Imtiaz Dharker

  Dream, Stars, Moon

  Imtiaz Dharker (2007). “The Terrorist at My Table”, p.156, Penguin Books India

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• Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

  Cormac McCarthy

  Communication, Towns

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• The circus arrives without warning.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Warning, Night Circus

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, 2011.

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• I think there are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show that there’s another way to live and respond to things.

  Tony Dungy

  Believe, Opportunity, Thinking

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• But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.

  William H. McRaven

  Military, World, Want

  William H. McRaven's Commencement Address at the University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.

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• So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!

  Rachel Renée Russell

  Freak, Enough

  Rachel Renée Russell (2012). “The Dork Diaries Set: Dork Diaries Books 1, 2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, and 5”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Unexpected, Finest, Pleasure

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.

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• They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars… When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stars, Hands, People

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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... 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.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, Laughing

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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

  James Maxton

  Horse, Two, Ifs

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Art, Majority Rule

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• 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.

  E. B. White

  World, Shade, Way

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.106, Cornell University Press

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

  Tony Dungy

  Thinking, Want, Way

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• Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Sea, Sky

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

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

  Sara Gruen

  Running, Guilty Conscience, Hell

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.310, Hachette UK

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