Carousels Quote by Adam Gopnik Download Open image “After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.” — Adam Gopnik ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Carousels Rewards Spinning
All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now before it… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person! — Tammin Sursok Copy Share Image
I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis. — Carroll Smith Copy Share Image
Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky,… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think -… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on. — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
I have a free couple of hours," I told him, walking toward my car, which was parked on the next block. "There's a very… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Four sits down on the edge of the carousel, leaning against a plastic horse's foot. His eyes lift to the sky, where there are… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now before it… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared and really excited. You don't know what's coming… — Gina Gershon Copy Share Image
In my mind, only one inviolable precept exists in terms of being a successful writer: you have to write. The unspoken sub-laws of that… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image