Circus Ringmaster Quotes

If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital management, I'd turn to Carson. Fiorina would make an articulate television pundit. But for president? ~ Nicholas Kristof

The Vagabond Circus was different than all the rest in many ways and the first was it had no clowns. Not a single red, round nose in the whole troupe. Maybe that was the reason that Dave had decided he'd be the silliest ringmaster in all of history. His job was to lead and move the events of the show along but he was less a Master of Ceremony and more a buffer between the jaw dropping acts. ~ Sarah Noffke

Vagabond Circus was about change. It moved from place to place, and reconfigured based on available performers. The ringmaster loved that about the circus. "Without change, we are dead," he often said. ~ Sarah Noffke

Three things are forever consistent: the passing of time, the rotation of the Earth, and the ringmaster of Vagabond Circus. ~ Sarah Noffke

I never doubted my talent. If talent was the circus, then I was its ringmaster and audience, applauding its every move. ~ Philip Schultz

Our circus caravan. The ringmaster told us to meet him at the gas station if we got lost, but he may have forgotten, or maybe he meant a different gas station. Anyway, we're lost. Is that food I smell?" "Oh, my dears," the woman said. "You must come in, poor children. I am Aunty Em. Go straight through to the back of the warehouse, please. There is a dining area." We thanked her and went inside. Annabeth muttered to me, "Circus caravan?" "Always have a strategy, right?" "Your head is full of kelp. ~ Rick Riordan

I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange. ~ David Arnold

Piccadilly Circus- that circus have a magnet for him, that circus represent life, that circus is the beginning and the ending of the world. ~ Sam Selvon

If there's one thing to know about the human body; it's this: the human body has a ringmaster. This ringmaster controls your digestion, your immunity, your brain, your weight, your health and even your happiness. This ringmaster is the gut ~ Nancy S. Mure

What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?"
"No, Julius. It's the end of the circus."
"I see. And these are the clowns?"
Foaly's head poked through the doorway.
"Pardon me for interrupting your extended circus metaphor, but what the hell is that? ~ Eoin Colfer

I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star. ~ Tiny Tim

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

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. ~ Erin Morgenstern

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. ~ Erin Morgenstern

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip. ~ George Orwell

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus. ~ Billy Corgan

If you don't want to be a gawker, you've gotta join the circus. ~ Patrick Califa

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town ~ Anne Lamott

If you surround yourself with clowns, don't be surprised when your life resembles a circus. ~ Steve Maraboli

The circus goes from town to town, so why run away to join it? It should be, I've decided to wait for the circus to come. ~ Dana Gould

We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

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

When I was little, my mother told me there are basically two kinds of people in the world: town people and circus people. The kind who stay are town people, and the kind who leave are circus people. ~ Cathy Day

Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable. ~ Cate Blanchett

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus. ~ Albert Einstein

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From At The Circus ~ Groucho Marx

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus. ~ Jerry Coleman

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author.
Wine is bottled poetry ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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. ~ Edward R. Murrow

Q: How is being at a singles bar different from going to the circus? A: At the circus the clowns don't talk. ~ Various

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

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions. ~ Dean Koontz

The ringmaster cannot be in all three rings at once. ~ Jones Loflin

Wolves don't perform in a circus, and people with a mind of their own, don't perform in a circus either. ~ Avijeet Das

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

If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus. ~ James Maxton

The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled. ~ Jay Leno

I always wanted to play baseball and join the circus. Now I have both. ~ Graig Nettles

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today. ~ Ray Manzarek

My class is not a three ring circus. ~ Hetty King

Damn everything but the circus. ~ Corita Kent

Jackie wears even more makeup than those scary circus people. You know, when you go to the circus and you accidentally see a trapeze artist close-up and they are orange. ~ Louise Rennison

It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance. ~ Erin Morgenstern

How can you have a rock n' roll circus without a midget? ~ Nikki Sixx

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration. ~ Bil Keane

A chess tournament disguised as a circus. ~ John Connally

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness ... ~ Jean Rhys

I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes. ~ Ashley Madekwe

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

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head. ~ Steven Wright

By the time 'Dumbo's Circus' wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature film gig. ~ Jim Cummings

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. ~ George Carlin

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. ~ Nicolas Cage

Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler. ~ Ben Chaplin

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

When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness. ~ Frederick Lenz

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. ~ Ally Carter

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood. ~ Erica Jong

Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others. ~ Janusz Korczak

I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something. ~ Robert E. Howard

Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants. ~ Norris Church Mailer

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. ~ Woodrow Wilson

On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied. ~ Philippe Petit

When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. I suppose, in a way, I got my wish because when you're working on a film, you're in a traveling circus. ~ Neil Burger

But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor. ~ Toby Jones

I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo. ~ Naomi Judd

The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime. ~ Ian Astbury

I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus. ~ Neil Patrick Harris

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus? ~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering. ~ Bob Phillips

I don't think we can do it any other way," Nick said practically. "The circus is going to make a big fuss about it." It was all part of the hype of being circus stars, but ~ Danielle Steel

The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Honey, if crazy had a ringmaster, I'd be holding the whip. ~ E.A. Gottschalk

The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the sixth Reich. The ground floor is full of gambling tables, like all the other casinos ... but the place is about four stories high, in the style of a circus tent, and all manner of strange County-Fair/Polish Carnival madness is going on up in this space. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung. ~ P.T. Barnum

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are. ~ K.A. Applegate

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. ~ E.B. White

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus. ~ Mary Ellen Mark

I hate clowns and I would never do anything getting near a clown, I can't go to the circus. ~ Ty Simpkins

God is just one more Clown
In this Circus of mine
(from song "no tunnel too dark") ~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting. ~ Drew Barrymore

Damn everything but the circus! ... The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions. ~ E. E. Cummings

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business. ~ Philip Green

I'm like a circus standing on two legs. ~ Nuno Roque

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles. ~ Maxim Gorky

When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interviewed me in my old apartment about animal abuse in the circus as I sat on a leather sofa. ~ Steve-O

On a film, you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family. ~ Johnny Depp

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

My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together. ~ Lenny Kravitz

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties. ~ Walter Moers

Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side. ~ Sidney Lanier

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. ~ Gerald Brenan

You start in April and cross to the time of May
One has you as it leaves, one as it comes
Since the edges of these months are yours and defer
To you, either of them suits your praises.
The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm,
Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle. ~ Ovid

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. ~ Christopher Walken

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition. ~ Emmanuelle Beart

My circus train pulls through the night
Full of lions and trapeze artists
I'm done with elephants and clowns
I want to run away and join the office ~ Mike Doughty

If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death. ~ Darren Shan

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. ~ E.W. Howe

When you do a 'messa di voce,' that means you start soft, you crescendo into loud - and then you go back to soft again. Some people call it circus tricks, but in bel canto, it's really written into the music. ~ Sondra Radvanovsky