Circus Quotes - Page 6

• I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Gold, Twenties

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.117, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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

  Karen Elson

  People, Interesting, Outcast

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The main thing I like about New Yorkers is that they understand that their lives are a relentless circus of horrors, ending in death. As New Yorkers, we realize this, we resign ourselves to our fate, and we make sure that everyone else is as miserable as we are. Good town.

  Kyle Baker

  Funny, Humor, Fate

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

  Margaret Hughes

  Freak, Fats, Treated

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• I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life and noted all were too consumed on their own juggling act to see. This is when I learned to have fun, and kick the balls instead.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Fun, Deep Thought, Balls

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• You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

  Lefty Gomez

  Yankees, Play, Guy

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• We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

  Bronagh Gallagher

  Home, Heart, Concerts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But if you're coming off ACL surgery, you don't need to be having a press conference at OTAs. Every week? Really? It becomes a circus, a sideshow. It takes away from the focus of what those sessions are supposed to be about: the team.

  Donovan McNabb

  Team, Focus, Needs

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• Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

  Graig Nettles

  Baseball, Dream, New York

  Graig Nettles, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Balls”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

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• Golf is a nice game, but that's all. It's never going to be an exciting game to watch on TV. It's not a circus and never will be one. The audience for golf is not going to change significantly. It's always going to be people who play it, understand it, and love it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Nice, Golf, Games

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• I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

  Bill Moyers

  Strength, Might, Pay

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• I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.

  Paul Verlaine

  Spring, Army, Fire

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• If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.

  Darren Shan

  Running, Night, Blood

  Darren Shan (2007). “Cirque Du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan”

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• You start in April and cross to the time of May
  One has you as it leaves, one as it comes
  Since the edges of these months are yours and defer
  To you, either of them suits your praises.
  The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm,
  Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.

  Ovid

  Song, Spring, Theatre

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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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• I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

  Christopher Walken

  Zoos, Animal, Law

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• New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.

  John Lindsay

  New York, Balance, Movement

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• As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

  Wally Schirra

  Children, Men, Shots

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• The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.

  Jim Capaldi

  People, Different, Goes On

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

  Danny Huston

  Actors, Way, Gypsy

  Source: collider.com

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• What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.

  Micky Dolenz

  School, Boys, Years

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

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Directors, Inventing

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• Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

  Billy Corgan

  Running, Children, Voice

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have a lot of trouble forgiving myself for being so dumb... But yes, of course, the big generous compassionate view that you should take of yourself and of all events is: what a glorious circus train this has been, and what a wonderful messy parade, and all of those steps took me here, where I precisely need to be now, so God bless it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Views, Dumb, Forgiving

  Interview with Rachel Khong, therumpus.net. October 29, 2012.

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• I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Mistake, Humor

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