Top Circus Quotes

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers . ....

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.

Circus Definition

(n.) A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.

(n.) A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.

(n.) Circuit; space; inclosure.

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

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.

When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like being the fastest midget in the circus.

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.

I'm like a circus standing on two legs.

Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.

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

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

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 will happen.

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit

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