Best Carnival Quotes
67 Carnival quotes by 62 unique authors
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Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss…
— Alan Moore
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In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.
— Chaim Potok
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Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.
— Guy Finley
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When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the…
— Randy Quaid
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The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.
— Bob Dylan
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The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar…
— Billy Joel
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A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy,…
— Katherine Dunn
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The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the…
— Umberto Eco
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
— Victor Hugo
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Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
— David Mamet
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Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone,…
— Joanne Harris
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God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.
— Carrie Underwood
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If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.
— Stephen King
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Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.
— Sonia Sanchez
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The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. I have a lot…
— Anna Akhmatova
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Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?
— Kami Garcia
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The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.
— Catherynne M. Valente
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A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the…
— Richard Brautigan
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I stumble through a carnival of horrors
— Anne Rice
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So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.
— Richelle Mead
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Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really…
— David Lynch
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On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.
— Mike Birbiglia
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