Circus

To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.

- Jack Handey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In their natural habitat elephants graze up to 20 hours a day. A circus keeps an elephant in chains 90 of the time. They are deprived of water and deprived of food. They are shocked.

- Bob Barker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

- Arthur Conan Doyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

- Herbert V. Prochnow Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I enjoyed playing with them. Out here, it was a little more like a circus. It's like playing with Elvis being out here with Daly.

- Davis III Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I mean, the game turned into a little bit of a three-ring circus.

- Chris Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

IBM is trying to ride this horse along with all the other horses it's riding and not fall off any of them. This is a great circus act.

- Dan Kusnetzky Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

- Alcaeus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

- Federico Fellini Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Literature has always had its circus side, its freaks and its frivolities - and maybe that's all part of it, and no bad thing if it draws people towards what is most worthwhile.

- Alain Botton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My grandfather took me and my brother to the roof of his house, ... He took out his rifle and he blew rounds into the sky for ten minutes to celebrate. Then he took his bugle out and he blasted the whole neighborhood with his bugle, he was so thrilled about his son. Then he took us to the circus, and then he took us to the movie 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.'

- Deepak Chopra Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

- Ray Manzarek Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- E(lwyn) B(rooks) White Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is what it is, a circus. I'd prefer to start on the road and have home ice for Game 7, which is what we would have. ... But there's no sense crying about it because it's the situation we're in.

- Jim Schoenfeld Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I didn't want to make it a media circus. It's something that's part of football, it happens. It was a road I had to come across and I tried to handle as best and as professionally as I could.

- Hines Ward Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I just don't know what happened. ... I feel as if I'm trying to scrounge around and pick up the pieces in the midst of this media circus.

- Jennifer Aniston Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They wanted to take the traditional circus and make it more kid friendly. Now it's easy for kids to follow.

- Chuck Wagner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.

- Terry Gilliam Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We're going to sue the superintendent, and we're going to sue the state Board of Education. ... It's like a three-ring circus over there. We will spare no expense to help these kids.

- Arturo Gonzalez Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If what's most important about your project is to make a circus, you have much less chance of sporting success.

- Luis Figo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is a bit of a circus, isn't it

- Amy Davis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Ben Hecht Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is the same circus as last year. It's the same production company that does the Shrine Circus in Omaha that just ended.

- David Fink Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

These images in vivid and violent tones have resulted from crystallization of memories of the circus, popular tales or travel.

- Henri Matisse Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes