Carnival Quotes

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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Drugs are a carnival in hell. — Edith Piaf
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing,… — Norman Mailer
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. — Jon Anderson
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. — George Meredith
Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and… — Paddy Chayefsky
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I… — Niccolo Paganini
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign, — Alec Baldwin
I'm very romantic when I masturbate. Sometimes I light a candle...then I try and shoot it out. It's like a carnival. — Dave Attell
A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in… — Jerry Smith
Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his… — James Tabor
If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them… — Charles Spurgeon
Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was… — Rod Serling
Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back… — James Connolly
I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all… — Karl Lagerfeld
I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border. — Edward Blake
With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's… — Charles S. Maier
Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid,… — Wendy Doniger
That Ted Turner is a genius...He has taken what used to be a carnival side show and turned it into a gold mine. Yes -… — Samantha Barks
Through the clouds of smoke I seemed to see all old Asia before me, and the adventures of past years behind me. A carnival of… — Sven Hedin

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