But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. - Jim Morrison
Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn’t mean you have to join the circus. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. - Jim Morrison
There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight. - Lon Chaney
It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future. - Daniel Kehlmann
The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you’ve ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ... - J.M. August
If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I stood and looked at the large framed painting of the Pierrot clown that hung on her wall and sympathised with the tears that rolled down its cheek. Like the clown, I felt contained within a frame, the only difference being my tears were not for public show. - Eileen Munroe
Sometimes It feels like time is an evil clown that we always imagine. It gives you everything you ask for, and when you are about to happily embrace every gift that you have received it snatches away everything laughing and clapping at you, watching you fall on your knees and break into pieces. - Akshay Vasu
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs. - Thomas Sydenham
As humans, reality for us is largely based on other people's perceptions. If there's 20 bodies in your crawl space but you haven't been caught yet, you tell yourself you're still a birthday clown, and that's how you keep doing it. - Dan Harmon