A Quote by P. T. Barnum

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

P. T. Barnum

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P. T. Barnum
American - Entertainer
July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891

I enjoyed clowns when I was a kid going to the circus. Mainly I mean the good clowns, when you go to a circus.

Andy Muschietti

I like the clowns from the circus that have more paint on their face. They were all funny and made me laugh. As a kid, I remember the clowns that were all in white reminded me more of death than circus clowns. It can be a scary thing.

Peter Stormare

In the Stephen Sondheim song, when something bad happens in the circus, they send in the clowns. In America's political circus, they send in the lawyers.

Gavin Esler

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.

Christina Hendricks

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

Naomi Judd

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

Ty Simpkins

Everyone hates clowns," Otis said. "Even other clowns hate clowns.

Rick Riordan

A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room.

Ellen DeGeneres

The circus was born with animals, horses at the start. This is part of our cultural heritage. It's a whole, with clowns and acrobats.

Princess Stephanie of Monaco

No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable

Terry Pratchett

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

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

Eminem

I've said it from the very beginning: Fighting the best guys in the world doesn't pay as good as the circus. I want to join the circus. I'm trying to get that circus money.

Eddie Alvarez

Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show. The colorful circus and the clowns and the elephants, for all intents and purposes, are gone, and we're dealing only with the freaks.

Jonathan Winters

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

Naguib Mahfouz

You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross." You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.

Babatunde Adebimpe

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