Circus Quotes

• The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Pleasure
  • Unexpected
  • Finest

• We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.

  

  Carol J. Adams
  • Culture
  • Language
  • Animal

• Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Country
  • Church
  • Hollywood

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

  

  Ernst Lubitsch
  • Comedy
  • Play
  • Going On

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

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Fun
  • Circus

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

  

  Robert Phillips
  • Suffering
  • Engagement
  • Rings

• For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion, at least one or two times a year-I am not speaking here to the real enthusiasts, they know better than I what they have to do.

  

  Adrienne Monnier
  • Real
  • Fashion
  • Circus

• You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Purpose
  • Stories
  • Residence

• Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.

  

  Norris Church Mailer
  • Circus
  • Elephants
  • Tickets

• Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

  

  Edward Eggleston
  • Interesting
  • Circus
  • Weddings

• It's really wonderful to come to work and have each episode be different, in a way. They have similar structure sometimes with the villain, but we can go in any direction we want. If we want to do an episode set in the circus, we can do that. You know how precious that is. That doesn't come around a lot.

  

  Benjamin McKenzie
  • Work
  • Direction
  • Precious

• Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Energy
  • Focused
  • Watches

• People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Cases
  • Circus

• A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.

  

  David Peace
  • Soul
  • Today
  • Fear

• People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big movies - not only are you writing this world that you're living in, but you're also simultaneously running a circus, and you can kind of start losing your mind like that.

  

  Mike White
  • People
  • Running
  • Losing

• The explanation would be a long one, because this circus is different from anything else that exists in terms of its form and artistic content. It is its own category.

  

  Daniel Lamarre
  • Content
  • Explanation
  • Circus

• That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

  

  Nigel Lythgoe
  • People
  • Worst
  • Boring

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

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Capable
  • Circus
  • Maidens

• I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.

  

  Francis Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Movie

• I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.

  

  Michael Ironside
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Quiet

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

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Animal
  • Use
  • Punishment

• This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.

  

  James Butler Hickok
  • Sympathy
  • Amusement
  • Circus

• Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.

  

  Stephen Dorff
  • Actor
  • Being
  • Circus

• Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Way
  • Actors
  • Praying

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