Erin Morgenstern Quotes

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

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

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

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!

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

Damn everything but the circus.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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