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  • Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.

  • Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

    Littles   Jazz   Opinion  
    Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books
  • I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.

  • Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books
  • Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

    Conrad Hyers (2003). “The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith: A Celebration of Life and Laughter”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

    Teacher   Smart   Class  
  • It's possible that the clowning and the buffoonery and the entertainment are a bigger part of what's happening than we've allowed. And that Trump is primarily an entertainer who wants ratings, and an undisciplined speaker, and it will all be less than we think. It's something that we have to consider as a possibility; we don't know.

    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of throwing one foot forward, putting his head down a bit as he silently runs the valves, and then the cheeks bloom out in the way that has mystified his dentist for years, and he hits into the solo. When that foot goes forward like that, you know that John Birks Gillespie is no longer clowning. Stand back.

    Running   Years   Feet  
  • Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

    Respect   Rocks   Looks  
    "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.
  • There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.

    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.

    Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.152, Soho Press
  • I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.

  • In all honesty, I never actually did anything wrong (in my eyes, at least) at school or misbehaved in any big way. If it was anything, it was probably just a lot of clowning around.

    Honesty   School   Eye  
    Source: www.bbc.co.uk
  • A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.

  • I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

    Funny   Friends   Humor  
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