Circus Quotes

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin

Mean, Off, Left

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken

Art, Science, Democracy

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
H. L. Mencken

Best, Political, Heard

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

Christmas, Nothing, Spirit

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White

Act, Fall, Victim

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

Work, End, Keep

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.
Katy Perry

Truth, Fight, Try

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.
Jane Seymour

Crisis, Sometimes, Become

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
Woodrow Wilson

Far, Colleges, Swallowing

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.
Drew Barrymore

Acting, Loved, Odd

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

Country, America, Church

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.
Billy Corgan

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
Francesca Annis

Life, Media, Seeing

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
Ben Hecht

Time, Moving, Away

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.
Christopher Walken

True, Small, Guy

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

Marriage, Good, Deal

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.
Jason Reitman

Understand, Why, Movie

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sometimes, Acting, Body

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.
Lewis Black

Work, Politics, Big

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

God, Sometimes, Another

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.
Julie Burchill

Money, Poor, Here

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
Al Lewis

Single, Show, Worked

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

Family, Started, Cartoons

Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.
Bil Keane

Family, Done, Friends

I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.
Idris Elba

Home, Mean, Moment

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.
Tippi Hedren

Time, Pain, Find

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
Emmanuelle Beart

Football, Wanted, Ambition

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.
Brian Molko

Freedom, Rock, Hell

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
Edsger Dijkstra

Life, Nothing, Training

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fear, Movies, General

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