[Politics in America is:] A chess tournament disguised as a circus.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
The great advantage of the circus, and the reason it is so popular, is really the ideal combination of art and sport. It's the ideal art form, in a certain way, if you want to be accessible.
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
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.
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.
I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.
That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.
In our time, a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!
Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...
I keep my iPod on shuffle most of the time, but I'm most into Cirque du Soleil soundtracks.
A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
If you want to fight in the UFC, you've got to realize that you are just an elephant in the circus. As soon as you ask for more peanuts, you have to go find a different circus.
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.
The circus is the only spectacle I know, that while you watch it, givrd the quslity of a very happy dream.
Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.
Clowns make me... Think.
