Circus Quotes - Page 2

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen.

Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.

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

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

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

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

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

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

The circus arrives without warning.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

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.

So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

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

We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.

I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

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

I always wanted to play baseball and join the circus. Now I have both.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!