Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward R. Murrow

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.

We're not good enough to have defensive lapses. Normally, when we score 59 points, that's enough. Offensively, we're doing some good things, but defensively it looks like a circus sometimes.

Jimmy Buffett

I love a great show. This is a great show. This is the circus coming to town and it's great to see (Glenn) do that,

Gary Neville

The players do not have to lift themselves, they know their responsibilities. I am sure we will hear a lot over the next few days about how we are not going to be playing European football after Christmas. There will be a circus but we have to remove ourselves from that.

We only have the circus once a year. I'd like to see another big turnout.

We'll have face painting and hula hoop games and other circus challenges, as well as novelty photo ops things like that.

He's going to turn the courtroom into a circus and we can't have it.

Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

Roberto Aguire

My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.

Dave Barry

I will spare you a gushy description of the dive itself, except to say that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

I think it tastes like a circus peanut.

Jeremy Roenick

I think it's going to be a circus for them,

I said, 'They gave me a transplant. Now people think I'm a circus freak.

I was proud of the kids. We kept our heads when that circus was going on.

Harper Lee

I think Ill be a clown when I get grown.. Yes, sir, a clown. There aint one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so Im gonna join the circus and laugh my head off Im gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. Just looka yonder, every one of em oughta be ridin a broomstick.

Oh, wow. All you can say is, 'Wow.' It was like a circus, but a fun circus to watch.

Donald Pleasence

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

Danny Huston

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

Corita Kent

Damn everything but the circus

Compared to what I'm used to, it was a circus out there today,

David Gergen

There's an old saying that you can't open a new circus until the old circus leaves town. It was just inevitable that this is going to continue to hang over their heads because the investigation continues. The Libby-Rove-Cheney story continues to have legs, and it's going to continue to for some time. And the war still goes on.

Dick Bennett

At halftime, we talked about 'Let's just show some semblance of a half-court defense and some offense. We took a lot of circus shots in the first half.

It started out weird, and then it just kept getting more weird as the night went on. I don't know of much that didn't happen in that game. Even when we kicked off, it was an adventure. I was just happy that our kids did eventually take control. I was waiting for them to play circus music at any time over the loud speaker, because that is what it seemed like.

Even though they probably didn't know it at the time, circus performers were practicing physics and math. Yes, it's fun and colorful, but you're still learning. You're learning without even knowing you are.

A special election would be nothing but a freak show and a circus act.

Charles Schumer

The risk here isn't turning courtrooms into a circus or unduly invading someone's privacy. The risk is the danger we pose to our society and our democracy when we close off our institutions to the people they're supposed to serve.

I've been through a circus in Cleveland and this hasn't been near that, ... Whoever is going to play, we just want to win the ballgame. That's what everybody's interested in, no matter who's back there.

Erin Morgenstern

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

Erin Morgenstern

The circus arrives without warning.

Erin Morgenstern

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

Erin Morgenstern

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Erin Morgenstern

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

Johann Lamont

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.