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“I don't know how satisfied you can be when we still have a losing record. We feel like we're definitely playing better. The reality is we're about to find out. Our toughest West Coast trip is normally the circus trip in November. This year, they're flip-flopped. We did well on the first West Coast trip 3-3. Now, this is a big one. All these teams Dallas, New Orleans, Phoenix, Utah, Denver, Sacramento and the Los Angeles Clippers are quality teams. Each team is really playing well. It's going to be a big challenge for us.”

“I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.”

“I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies”

Thinking Film Watches Vampire Hammers Circus Ghouls

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“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.”

Stills I Can Real Remember Moving Summer Rings Paris Performers Circus Keep Moving Forward Great Day Summer Days

Author:Tony Curtis

“... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.”

Thinking Long Important Ideas Play Shows Bigs Fun Interesting Results Music Style Particular Areas Important Things Fortune Satisfying Circus Ed Sullivan

Author:Jerry Garcia

“I always wanted to play baseball and join the circus. Now I have both.”

Play Wanted Baseball Circus

Author:Graig Nettles

“Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!”

Want Messages What You Want Supposed To Be Punk Circus

Author:John Lydon

“But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.”

Heart Soul Circus Touring Tents

Author:Pat Benatar

“I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life and noted all were too consumed on their own juggling act to see. This is when I learned to have fun, and kick the balls instead.”

Faces Fun Grew Balls Having Fun Kicks Embarrassed Deep Thought Consumed Circus Juggling

Author:Stefanie Schneider

“When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.”

Should Wells Made Turns Clear Tvs Politician Complaining Performers Circus Proceeding

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“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?”

Ifs Body Running Three Accepting Hell Willing Conscience Ancient Guilty What If Running Away Ninety Circus Wrecks Accept Me Guilty Conscience Cranky

Author:Sara Gruen

“Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.”

People Men Long Two Military Duty Office Vote Bread Command Two Things Long Ago Circus Once Upon A Time Legion Bread And Circuses Military Command

Author:Juvenal

“Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles at the expense of all others with resulting loss of grace and suppleness, or a sacrifice of the heart or lungs. Rather, it was conceived to limber and stretch muscles and ligaments so that your body will be as supple as that of a cat and not muscular like that of the body of a brewery-truck horse, or the muscle-bound body of the professional weight lifter you so much admire at the circus.”

Heart Doe Body Loss Grace Sacrifice Produce Exercise Cat Weight Horse Bounds Your Body Admire Muscles Expenses Truck Lungs Circus Supple Haphazard Breweries

Author:Joseph Pilates

“Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.”

Knows Wells Tickets Elephants Circus

Author:Norris Church Mailer

“We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.”

Heart Home Raised Concerts Circus Confined Pantomime

Author:Bronagh Gallagher

“OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.”

Ifs Want Making Love Elephants Circus

Author:A. M. Rosenthal

“What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?”

Bears Horror Circus

Author:Donald Pleasence

“That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.”

People Want Worst Television Boring Idols Entertaining Circus American Idol

Author:Nigel Lythgoe

“When you were a kid and the circus came to town it was awesome to see these little creatures, but these things go out of fashion, like polyester blazers with rolled up sleeves. We don't have to suffer them anymore so why are there all these little people running around?”

People Littles Running Kids Suffering Fashion Creatures Towns Circus Sleeves Blazers

Author:Zach Braff

“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.”

Needs Animal Movement Beats Percent Dignity Entertainment Ridiculous Tricks Chains Vegetarian Vegan Quarters Beaten Elephants Circus Apes Chimpanzees Vegan Health Entertainment Business

Author:Bob Barker

“We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.”

Stars Truth Is Complaining Artificial Movie Star Clown Royalty Circus Circus Clowns

Author:Nicolas Cage

“I'd follow three simple rules: 1) Never go within two kilometres of circus freaks. 2) Never go near the butcher shop in Dublith. 3) Always spend under 300 sen on snacks. That ought to keep me alive!”

Two Three Simple Alive Ought Shops Freak Circus Butchers Snacks

Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.”

Years Two Shows School Parent Boys Happened Normal Decided Two Years Take Me Show Business Circus

Author:Micky Dolenz

“And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.”

World Children Play Home Order Spirituality Existence Return Tired Our World Disorder Void Circus Nameless Non Existence Order And Disorder

Book:Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion

Source: Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion

“Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you, right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds I've looked at life that way. But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Something's lost, but something's gained In living every day I've looked at life from both sides now From win and lose, and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all”

“Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.”

Long Sometimes Problem Term Courage Objectives Managers Long Term Performers Circus Short Term Crossings Agility

Author:Buck Rodgers

“If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus.”

Ifs Two Horse Circus

Author:James Maxton

“Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.”

Thinking Men Feels Writing Doubt Training Tricks Bars Journalism No Doubt Appropriate Sensations Display Clown Seekers Circus Bad Times Mindless Nightclubs Upstart Good Times Bad Times

Author:Naguib Mahfouz

“A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.”

“I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.”

Way Dancing Driving Elephants Circus

Author:Gary Reilly

“The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen.”

Happens Dangerous Crowds Attraction Circus Virtuoso

Author:Claude Debussy

“Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.”

Thinking Way Want Sometimes Shows Another Way Circus

Author:Tony Dungy

“John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.”

Years Certain Effort Groups Team New York Circus Cambridge Team Effort

Author:Terry Gilliam

“Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things. Maybe you should think of going-literally or symbolically- to a circus today, where you'll see stunts you never dreamed possible. The novelty and originality there may stimulate what you need more of in this life. Have the daring to take a flight for the idea you believe in!”

“What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.”

People Thinking World May Has Beens Done Past Amount Messages Brave Endless Bread Propaganda Distraction New World Circus Servitude Brave New World Bread And Circuses

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt”

Giving Bread Circus Revolt Bread And Circuses

Author:Juvenal

“The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.”

Fun Circus

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.”

Hard Running Running Away Circus Accountants

Author:Samuel West

“Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.”

Wells Turns Dog Cracks Circus Whips Trainers

Author:George Orwell

“The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.”

Whole Jobs Actors Twenties Rings Presidency Circus

Author:Herbert Hoover

“I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.”

Firsts Relationship Clown Divorced Circus Rodeo

Author:Naomi Judd

“A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.”

Book Doors Publishers Circus Reviewers Book Review

Author:Austin O'Malley

“A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.”

Directors Circus Inventing

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining these animals, the whole idea that we should enjoy the humiliating spectacle of an elephant or lion made to perform circus tricks shows a lack of respect for the animals as individuals.”

Should Children Made Ideas Whole Shows Individual Enjoy Animal Involved Training Tricks Cruelty Lions Elephants Amusement Circus Humiliating Lack Of Respect

Author:Peter Singer

“Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.”

Way Mean Perceive Remarkable Australia Circus

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.”

Language Animal Vain Cracks Circus Whips Trainers Recalcitrant

Author:Gerald Brenan

“That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.”

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks.”

Whole Shows Purpose Gone Television Freak Elephants Clown Circus Colorful Sideshows

Author:Jonathan Winters

“If you were to ask me, “What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?” I would say a huge amount. It’s showtime every day, it’s a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.”

People Ifs Doe Shows Running Asks Common Hell Team Rocks Huge Amount Band Musician Ask Me Restaurants Rock And Roll Circus

Author:Mick Fleetwood

“I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd come back up? I've always been like that. I've always said, No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.”

Ifs Knows Said Matter Happens Down And No Matter What Rounds Circus Dolls

Author:Doris Day

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