Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

Well I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought you know this group is really reinventing the circus as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics everybody wakes up and goes to work.

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

I avoid the media circus keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician but the clown is the most important.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus also shown as Circus of Fear was one of those movies.

I don't want to end up being a circus act doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.