Quotes About Clown

Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.

I'm training to become a giggle doctor. It's a kind of hospital clown who changes the atmosphere on the ward and helps recovery. It's about making patients laugh but also much more.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

Even a light-colored shirt or blouse or clown makeup can cause a reflection on the monitor, obscuring some of the data displayed.

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have written one or two novels which are not specifically funny. I wrote a study of Shakespeare which was not intended to be funny, but some people regard it as such.

I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.

Being a clown would be all right, but I did not want to be a clown unaware that he was one.

He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out.

The future was coming nearer, one relentless goose step after the next. Juliet could still remember when Hitler had seemed like a harmless clown. No one was amused now. ("The clowns are the dangerous ones," Perry said.)

I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It's less predictable, it's more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.

A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!

PROPAGANDA (PROP-A-GANDER)An evil grin behind a smiling clown's maskKamil Ali

When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway booth; and passersby can bean you with a ball.

who like the taste of being hurt. That makes you lower than the mice and the roaches. At least they try to save their skins, they got a normal outlook. But you, you're just a clown that ain't funny. And that's a sad picture, that's the saddest picture of all. Like on the outside it's the stupid crazy smile and inside it's a gloomy place where all they play is the blues. He frowned.

I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

I'm more of a clown, a tragic clown. Yeah. I just like humor to come out of characters.