#circus

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business! ↗

— George Sidney

#burlesque #business #called #circus #go

When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#brothers #care #cats #circus #deliberately

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

#bailey #circus #fan #huge #i

I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#the-night-circus #dreams

Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#erin-morgenstern #marco-celia #the-night-circus #change

The circus had been unlike anything I could ever imagine and I could not walk away. I wanted to be a part of the magic, create it and wield it with such skill that it looked effortless. I wanted to fly. ↗

— Laura Lam

#circus #magic #imagination

Taking a couple short backup swigs, Flint’s crippling headache started to release its grip, sort of the way he imagined an octopus would release an inedible bowling ball. ↗

— Cole Alpaugh

#bowling #circus #drinking #headache #imagination

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#ships #the-night-circus #sea

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

— Erin Morgenstern

#dreams #travel #dreams

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

— Pat Benatar

#circus #day #every #every day #heart