Clown Quotes - Page 15

• We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Hero, Boxers, Sometimes

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Vanity, Greed

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• You can only stare at a clown mask so long. After a few minutes it's no big deal anymore. So people start paying attention to the music instead of what the clown is doing, or what he is wearing, or how cool his spikey hair is.

  Paul Gray

  Hair, Long, People

  "Slipknot top 10: Everything you didn't know about the masked metallers whose bassist Paul Gray has passed away", www.mirror.co.uk. May 25, 2010.

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• I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

  Snoop Dogg

  Mother, Drama, School

  "Snoop Dogg: 'Women are getting empowered. Now I have a daughter, I understand'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

  Will Ferrell

  Teacher, Math, Exercise

  "Will Ferrell says growing up in Irvine made him funny". Interview with Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. July 23, 2008.

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• I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

  Nathan Fillion

  School, Class, Sick

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• Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Dog, Cat, Cowboy

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.256, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

  Katherine Applegate

  Hate, Eye, Faces

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• In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Brother, Uncles

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• You see, this heart, won't settle down; just like a child, running, scared, from a clown. Demi Lovato

  Demi Lovato

  Running, Children, Heart

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• I can't believe you jokers fixed it." Hi was picking his way down to the beach. "Believe it, clown. Too much brain power here to fail." Still pumped, Shelton threw another palm Ben's way. "Oh, I'm sure." Hi streched, yawned. "It was something highly technical, I suppose? Something requiring mechanical ability? Nothing as simple as tightening a wire or flippin a switch, right?" Ben reddened. Shelton developed an intrest in his sneakers. Score one for Hi.

  Kathy Reichs

  Beach, Believe, Simple

  Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.26, Penguin

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• Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood and of plastic; some of straw and cloth and papier-mâché. Some were as bright as parrots, others as pale as parchment. Some were so grotesque he was certain they'd been carved by crazy people; others so perfect they looked like the death masks of angels. There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved flames instead of hair.

  Clive Barker

  Crazy, Real, Angel

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• Tried to escape, to block out the fact that I was being eaten alive by arachnids. For some reason the only thing I could replace it with was the image of being eaten by tiny clowns.

  David Wong

  Block, Alive, Tiny

  David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.97, Macmillan

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• Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes.

  Rick Riordan

  Flesh Eating, Smell, Scare

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• I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work... Now I can’t get a dramatic role to save my life!

  Anna Faris

  Growing Up, Class, Theatre

  "Scary Movie 4 - Anna Faris interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.

  Bas Rutten

  Crazy, Kids, Class

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• Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.

  Steve McConnell

  Fun, Guarantees, Heuristics

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.12, Pearson Education

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• I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

  Bobby Cannavale

  School, Kind, Classroom

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• When I am wrong, he is delighted to forgive. When I am angry, he clowns to make me smile. When I am happy, he is joy unbounded. When I am a fool, he ignores it. When I succeed, he brags. Without him, I am only another man. With him, I am all-powerful. He is loyalty itself.

  Gene Hill

  Loyalty, Dog, Powerful

  Steve Smith, Gene Hill (1999). “Just Mutts: A Tribute to the Rogues of Dogdom”, p.93, Willow Creek Press

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• I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

  Richard Simmons

  Real, Serious Person, People

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• There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Fun, House, Our Family

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• Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!     No hungry generations tread thee down;   The voice I hear this passing night was heard     In ancient days by emperor and clown:   Perhaps the self-same song that found a path      Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,       She stood in tears amid the alien corn;             The same that ofttimes hath     Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam       Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

  John Keats

  Song, Home, Heart

  "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)

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• There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.

  Tim Robbins

  Idiot, Shows, Diversion

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• I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised in it, from way back. I'm not putting jazz down, but I'm not a jazz singer...I've recorded all kinds of music, but (to them) I'm either a jazz singer or a blues singer. I can't sing a blues – just a right-out blues – but I can put the blues in whatever I sing. I might sing 'Send In the Clowns' and I might stick a little bluesy part in it, or any song. What I want to do, music-wise, is all kinds of music that I like, and I like all kinds of music.

  Sarah Vaughan

  Wise, Song, People

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• I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

  Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

  Class, Comedy, Bits

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