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1 " You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? "
― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper
2 " The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus. "
― Abhijit Naskar , The Education Decree
3 " Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. "
― Erin Morgenstern
4 " The people who run the circus kidnapped us from our parents. Since we got here, we have all been working in the circus. We can’t see any of our mummies or kiss them OR cuddle up to them. said Adrian.His tears flowing in his big blue eyes that were the colour of the sky. We didn’t want to listen to our parents when they told us: ‘Never, Ever!” talk to strangers. We all disobeyed and spoke to strangers, and then the strangers stole us away from our parents. "
― Magda M. Olchawska , Mikolay and Julia in the Attic (Mikolay and Julia, #2)
5 " Well, there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings. And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring. And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything. "
6 " Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales meant more than they do now, but perhaps less than they will someday, he draws a breath that releases the tangled knot of words in his heart, and they fall from his lips effortlessly." The circus arrives without warning. "
7 " Do you have kids?" Anna asks.I laugh. " What do you think?" " It's probably a good thing," she admits. " No offense, but you don't exactly look like a parent." That fascinates me. " What do parents look like?" She seems to think about this. " You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Like that. "
8 " Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN "
9 " There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except 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. "
― Dave Barry
10 " You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town "
― Anne Lamott , Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
11 " I love Israel, I go back all the time. I just love New York a little more. My workers are Arabs, my best friend is a black man from Alabama, my girlfriend's a Puerto Rican, and my landlord is a half-Jew bastard. You know what I did this morning? I read in the paper yesterday that the circus is setting up in the Madison Square Garden, they said the elephants would be walking through the Holland Tunnel at dawn. I'm a photographer a little too, you know? So I get up at five o'clock, bike over to the tunnel, and wait. It turns out the paper got it wrong, they came through the Lincoln, but still, you know? This is a hell of a place. "
― Richard Price
12 " 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 will happen. "
13 " Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end. "
― David Niven
14 " Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. "
15 " When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing. "
