Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.
In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.
I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.
Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.
The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop. . . find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side.
They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.
So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?
Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.
When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.
I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.