Circus Quotes

Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus.

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

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

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

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

The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.

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

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

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

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

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

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