Clown Quotes - Page 17

• On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.

  Bobby Jones

  Hero, Fate, Golf

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• Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.

  George Herbert

  Hands, Giving, Fingers

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.295

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• Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

  Martin Luther

  Teacher, Serious, Christianity

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

  Rose Byrne

  Sibling, Thinking, Always Trying

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• It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Real, Past, Example

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• Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.

  Lizz Winstead

  Careers, Truth Is, Truth Be Told

  "Lizz Winstead, Freely Speaking". Interview with Lianne Stokes, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Art, Husband, Wife

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  War, Trying, World

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Class, Careers, Attention

  "Ellen DeGeneres to Ann Curry: 'I don't like a lot of attention.'". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. October 3, 2011.

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• None of this seems to affect the leadership, that people don't go out to vote, that they don't feel the need to go vote, that they already feel disenfranchised. It's not just Obama's fault or Clinton's or whomever's, it's all of them, the whole collection of clowns I've had to sit through.

  Lewis Black

  People, Needs, Faults

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

  Richard Simmons

  Emotional, Who I Am, People

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.

  Scott Simon

  Charlie Hebdo, Anarchist, Charlie

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, School

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• Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Thinking, Fool, Virtue

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• I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.

  Emeli Sande

  Song, Believe, Artist

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• I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.

  Emeli Sande

  Believe, Doors, People

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• You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

  Sofia Vergara

  School, Class, Catholic

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• If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.

  Tom Waits

  Baseball, Cutting, People

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2003.

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• I was never into candy and games and clowns.

  Harry Shearer

  Games, Candy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Italian, Play

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.240, 谷月社

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• I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.

  Jim Dale

  Fun, School, People

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• I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.

  L. Todd Rose

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Interesting, Looks, Woody

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

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• Of all the dear sights in the world, nothing is so beautiful as children when they are giving something. Any small thing they give. Children give the world to you. They open the world to you as if it were a book you'd never been able to read. But when a gift must be found, it is always some absurd little thing, passed on crooked. . . an angel looking like a clown. Children have so little that they can give, because they never know they have given you everything.

  Margaret Lee Runbeck

  Beautiful, Children, Book

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• I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.

  Chris Elliott

  Class, People, Stage

  "Chris Elliott's unusual career". The Washington Times Interview, www.washingtontimes.com. February 15, 2000.

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