Ally Carter Quotes

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

The circus leaves a sweet memory.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

Damn everything but the circus.

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

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

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.

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

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

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.

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

I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.

I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

Nik Wallenda and his family are legendary.

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 went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."

My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.