Quotes About Circus

He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed animals -- weary of their cages, which were never large enough to begin with -- and they responded sluggishly to the whip. The trapeze artists fell with monotonous regularity into poorly strung nets. The clowns looked hungry. The tent leaked. The crowd was inattentive, shouting incoherently at inappropriate moments. And when the show was over, no one cheered.

Clowns—feh! All that ghastly, forced gaiety, worse than New Year's Eve.

It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.

In the Stephen Sondheim song, when something bad happens in the circus, they send in the clowns. In America's political circus, they send in the lawyers.

If you want to fight in the UFC, you've got to realize that you are just an elephant in the circus. As soon as you ask for more peanuts, you have to go find a different circus.

Bring on the dancing bear!

There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.

What are they thinking? 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.

Ne të gjithë jemi duke shkuar për të vdekur, të gjithë ne, çfarë cirku! Kjo vetë duhet të na bëjë ta duam njëri-tjetrin, por kjo nuk e bën. Ne jemi të terrorizuar dhe të rrafshuar nga trivialiteti, ne jemi duke u ngrënë nga asgjëja.

Todas aquelas pessoas. O que estão fazendo? O que estão pensando? Todos nós vamos morrer, que circo! Só isso deveria fazer com que amássemos uns aos outros, mas não faz. Somos aterrorizados e esmagados pelas trivialidades, somos devorados por nada.

Todos nós vamos morrer, que circo! Só isso deveria fazer com que amássemos uns aos outros, mas não faz. Somos aterrorizados e esmagados pelas trivialidades, somos devorados por nada.

Todos vamos a morir, todos nosotros. ¡Que Circo! Debería bastar con eso para amarnos los unos a los otros, pero no es así. Nos aterrorizan y aplastan las trivialidades de la vida; nos devora la nada.

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

I have always been a romantic; one of those who believes that a woman in pink circus tights holds all the secrets of the world.

Everyone stops for a giant on a unicycle.

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

Far more entertaining than a high-wire or trapeze circus act is watching someone engage in a life-after-death-defying spiritual rebellion, while pretending we thoroughly condemn it.

Every mummer needs a dancing bear.

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.

We don't see many fat men walking on stilts.

Not his circus, not his monkeys

The media circus got a bit twisted when I was in London. It became a bit of a joke, really. In Paris, they're so serious, I can take myself really seriously, too. I can get really morbid without people telling me to cheer up.

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