Erin Morgenstern Quotes

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

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

The circus leaves a sweet memory.

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

Damn everything but the circus.

I'm actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey.

The circus is the only spectacle I know, that while you watch it, givrd the quslity of a very happy dream.

I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.

When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!

I always liked circuses, so I would have enjoyed that.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

The very first time I went to Madison Square Garden, I went to see the circus.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

How can you have a rock n' roll circus without a midget?

I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I'm interested in - they're ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There's also something about a circus that's magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film.

When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

The greatest thing I can remember in my whole career was the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey clowns asking me to appear with them at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1965.

My first riding partners were Mark Henry, The Great Khali and Daivari. It was the traveling circus.

The circus is a global theme. It exists in all parts of the world - maybe not in Africa, but it exists in Asia in all parts. In Latin America, it's difficult to find a person who hasn't gone to the circus.

I've said it from the very beginning: Fighting the best guys in the world doesn't pay as good as the circus. I want to join the circus. I'm trying to get that circus money.

I enjoyed clowns when I was a kid going to the circus. Mainly I mean the good clowns, when you go to a circus.

I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.