As quoted in "Patch Adams and clowns spreading laughter at hospital" (2 March 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gtw5nzgYpA
Kontext: You know, it's always the same. I've clowned in 81 countries. People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close. As a clown I can do things that people are too frightened of Love to allow you to do.
— Cole Porter American composer and songwriter 1891 - 1964
"Be A Clown" (written in 1946)
The Pirate (1948)
— Matka Tereza Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910 - 1997
Interview by Edward W. Desmond in TIME magazine (4 December 1989)
1980s
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Like a Rolling Stone
— Jenny Han, buch To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Quelle: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
— Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987
Variante: People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
— R. Scott Bakker, buch The Warrior Prophet
Ajencis, The Third Analytic of Men
Quelle: The Warrior Prophet (2005)
— Zach Galifianakis American actor and comedian 1969
Live at the Purple Onion (2007)
— Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958
This was a song written for the soundtrack of The Magician of Lublin (1979), based on the 1960 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer; Kate's singing of it appears at times in the background within the film - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkfbkVKmbG0
Song lyrics, Singles and rarities
— Patch Adams Physician, activist, diplomat, author 1945
Quelle: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 10
— D.J. MacHale, The Quillan Games
Variante: There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns... and clowns. -Bobby Pendragon
Quelle: The Quillan Games
— Mary E. Pearson young-adult fiction writer 1955
Quelle: The Beauty of Darkness
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906 - 1945
Quelle: Discipleship (1937), The Disciple and Unbelievers, p. 184.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki American finance author , investor 1947
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
— Chuck Palahniuk, buch Lullaby
Quelle: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
