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
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town — Anne Lamott
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. — Kin Hubbard
I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt — Juvenal
Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate. — Sayings
The people that are there for you on your darkest nights are the ones worth spending your brightest days with.
Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want! — John Lydon
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. — Ben Hecht
Don't blame a clown for acting the clown, ask yourself why you keep going to the circus. — Gary Brecka
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law. — Christopher Walken
More Night Circus Quotes
I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. — Erin Morgenstern
This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it. — Erin Morgenstern
I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do. — Erin Morgenstern
If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito.
Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. — Erin Morgenstern
The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones. — Erin Morgenstern
People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see. — Erin Morgenstern
I do not dream at night, I dream all day, I dream for a living.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight. — Oscar Wilde
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
The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold. — Erin Morgenstern
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
Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it — Danielle Trussoni
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself. — Erin Morgenstern
I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you. — Erin Morgenstern
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. — Erin Morgenstern
And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead. — Erin Morgenstern
Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that. — Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. — Erin Morgenstern
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
Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story? — Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. — Erin Morgenstern
I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real. — Erin Morgenstern
Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped?" "I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in," Widget says. "And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with," Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one. — Erin Morgenstern
The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things. — Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. — Erin Morgenstern
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul — Erin Morgenstern
We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses. — David Paul
We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change. — Erin Morgenstern
But you built me dreams instead. — Erin Morgenstern
Blind with love, my daughter
has cried nightly for horses,
those long-necked marchers and churners
that she has mastered, any and all,
reigning them in like a circus hand. — Anne Sexton
It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance. — Erin Morgenstern
I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please. — Erin Morgenstern
But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares. — Erin Morgenstern
You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough. — Erin Morgenstern
We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place. — Erin Morgenstern
You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream. — Erin Morgenstern
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
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
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