Quotes About Circus

When you see the numbers who come to the circus, you understand that we don't get that by abusing animals.

At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

Circus is the magic you should show your children.

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.

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

I never doubted my talent. If talent was the circus, then I was its ringmaster and audience, applauding its every move.

Circus lions are mean. They don't know anything about affection training.

Trump's 2016 effort could afford to be a shambolic circus; nothing was on the line. He never expected to win and so the rotating cast of campaign managers didn't really matter.

Animals are the traditional circus. It's what people remember from their childhood.

I don't believe in preachy films. I don't like such films. Having said that, I don't even enjoy films that only 'entertain.' That way, even the circus entertains.

I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.

As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.

I think that's a big part of what I love about the boys in the band, too, and what I find attractive in men in general is, really, the ability to not take everything so seriously because it is rock n' roll after all; it's a freakin' circus. We're not accountants here.

'Post 9/11 Blues' is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It's a generational thing.

He was a windblown blossom of some two hundred pounds with freckled teeth and the mellow voice of a circus barker. He was tough, fast and he ate red meat. Nobody could push him around. He was the kind of cop who spits on his blackjack every night instead of saying his prayers. But he had humorous eyes.

It was a hot day and the Ferris wheel was turning in the air like a thermometer bent in a circle and given the grace of music.

The roof of the big top was dark blue, spangled with silver stars, and it reminded him of something but he couldn't think what, and then he realized it was the roof - the vault of heaven - in a side chapel at the Catholic church where his mother dragged them three times a day on Sunday when they were very small, until she ran out of energy and let the devil have them. (One Good Turn)

As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

I lurve you, circus freak," Cabel says. It almost hurts to hear him say that. I lurve you, too, you big lumpy monster man," Janie says. That hurts even more to say.

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.

Life is a circus: you go in, bow, run around, bow again and leave.