P. T. Barnum Quotes

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

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• In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Different
  • Alone
  • New

• Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Which
  • Equilibrium
  • Morbid

• When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Love
  • Film

• Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Sister
  • Fame
  • Group

• There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Israel

• My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Listen

• I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • Music
  • Listen

• I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Been
  • Which
  • Waters

• 'Magadheera' is a lovely film which can't be recreated.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Lovely
  • Which

• When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Animal
  • Child
  • Circus

• And thus He mused: 'From here, indeedShall we strike terror in the Swede?And here a city by our laborFounded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;'Here cut' – so Nature gives command –Your window through on Europe; standFirm-footed by the sea, unchanging!

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Nature
  • City
  • Sea

• Always the sightseers: open-mouthed, disbelieving. There was a force for desolation loose in their midst which could consume their lives at a glance, surely they could see that? But they’d watch anyway, willing to embrace the void if it came with sufficient razzmatazz.

  

  Clive Barker

• I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and differences. And they can accept stuff that's weirder. I think there are enough intelligent men out there who get it, but women will watch behavior that's different and process it better. In general, women are less threatened by their emotions.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• There are a lot of human-created systems that we like to tout as being logical that are actually riddled with illogic. And then, on the other hand, we have all these natural systems that are not conscious, but they are logical, and they work really well.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Work
  • Hand

• I didn't really know many girls, growing up, because there weren't many other people living around where I lived.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Learning

• There are fun parts of running a startup and not so fun parts, and Facebook handles the not so fun parts, like infrastructure, spam, sales. The real questions are, how big can 'Instagram' get? Is it 400 million, or bigger? Can it be a viable business if it is that big? These are at the top of the list for everyone in Silicon Valley.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • Real
  • Business
  • Fun

• If I'm reviewing a record, man, I play that record to death, which is ironic in a way because if I review a concert I feel very confident in myself, certainly at this point, and have for most of my career. You're only hearing it once and then you go to your typewriter and you write the review.

  

  Gary Giddins
  • Myself
  • Record
  • Point

• I love horror movies like 'The Exorcist' and 'The Shining,' which freaked me out but in a good way. And I love gore.

  

  Milly Shapiro
  • Horror
  • Shining
  • Which

• I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• Every reality before your eyes was once imagined in the mind of one person. No matter who judges or knocks your dream, pay no attention to them. Instead, create what you imagine, and you will then be amazed at the Divine creative capacity you do have that will be well remembered for serving others.

  

  Barbara Rose
  • Reality
  • Remembered
  • Judges

• We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.

  

  Mike Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Morning
  • Like

• Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

  

  P. T. Barnum
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  • Circus
  • Clowns