#circus

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside. ↗

— Ernst Lubitsch

#comedy #going #inside #nobody #play

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#entertainment #ideal #itself #personal #venue

The circus is a jealous wench. Indeed that is an understatement. She is a ravening hag who sucks your vitality as a vampire drinks blood – who kills the brightest stars in her crown and will allow no private life for those who serve her; wrecking their homes, ruining their bodies, and destroying the happiness of their loved ones by her insatiable demands. She is all of these things, and yet, I love her as I love nothing else on earth. ↗

— Henry Ringling North

#family

The building was crowded with men and women packing stuff into boxes and bags, leather stuff, nylon, canvas, and rubber stuff, with brass rings and silver chains, steel buckles and studded straps. Elephant stuff. ↗

— Richard Schmitt

#men

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#burton #circus #elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #ever

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#circus #know #most #out #people

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

— Tony Dungy

#another way #circus #god #i #i think

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#animal #brutal #circus #confinement #entertainment

Is magic not enough to live for?" Widget asks. "Magic," the man in the grey suit repeats, turning the word into a laugh. "This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it. Look around you," he says, waving a hand at the surrounding tables. "Not a one of them even has an inkling of the things that are possible in this world, and what's worse is that none of them would listen if you attempted to enlighten them. They want to believe that magic is nothing but clever deception, because to think it real would keep them up at night, afraid of their own existence." "But some people can be enlightened," Widget says. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#mundane #possibility-enlighten #the-night-circus #enlightenment

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#away #circus #moving #moving away #packing