The Big Apple Circus is a circus that is based in New York City. Opened in 1977, it has become a tourist attraction as well.
Famous quotes containing the words big, apple and/or circus:
“I introduced her to Elena, and in that life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else, thus to be clutched and cherished, the exchange of a few words was enough to enable two totally dissimilar women to start calling each other by their pet names the very next time they met.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling.”
—Edward A. Boyden, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 423-5 (April 1888)
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)