Carnival Quotes: top 66 famous quotes about Carnival

Carnival Quotes & Sayings

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The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me. — Amanda Hocking

The primary carnivalistic act is the mock crowning and subsequent decrowning of the carnival king. — Mikhail Bakhtin

I wouldn't care whether it was a laboratory or a carnival. But it's merely safe. Tell me, Mr. Pollock, what is the matter with Gopher Prairie? — Sinclair Lewis

Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal. — Dov Davidoff

I've been in your body, baby, and it was paradise.
I've been in your body and it was a carnival ride. — Richard Siken

The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil. — Win Butler

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. — Victor Hugo

had been like wandering into the wrong carnival sideshow, the kind that left one feeling sick and slightly soiled. — John Connolly

Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different? — Kami Garcia

Dartmouth Winter Carnival opens, proving once again that bitter cold is no obstacle to going completely out of control. — Lisa Birnbach

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 year long. — Karl Lagerfeld

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

Everyone loves a comedy, my dear. It is divine. — Rawi Hage

There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts. — Warren Ellis

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

But no carnival can go on for ever. — Milan Kundera

Life Is Like A Carnival Ride, It Has Its Ups, Its Downs, And All Its Twerks. But We All Know That In The End It Was Fun And Worth The Wild Ride — Terrin White

Her mighty eyebrow rose like a kite catching the wind, flock of geese fleeing a shotgun blast, excursion balloon departing carnival grounds. — Dennis Vickers

So the carnival steams by, shakes ANY tree: it rains jackasses. — Ray Bradbury

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie. — Guy Finley

Carnival laughter does not permit a single one of these aspects of change to be absolutized or to congeal in one-sided seriousness. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise. — Vernon Howard

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride. — Matthea Harvey

Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes. — Stephen King

I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk. — Greg Rucka

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks. — Ben Mendelsohn

God put us on this carnival ride,
We close our eyes not knowing were it will take us next — Carrie Underwood

I stumble through a carnival of horrors — Anne Rice

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

Books are carnival rides for your imagination. — Richelle E. Goodrich

That's when I realized the chill wasn't coming from outside - it was coming from within me. — Amanda Hocking

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival. — Coco Chanel

So far I'm not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man. — Richelle Mead

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. — David Mamet

During a carnival, men put masks over their masks. — Xavier Forneret

Republican Ted Cruz announced that he will run for president in 2016. So finally, Carnival is no longer the most dangerous cruise in America. — Jimmy Fallon

Carnival: filth, trash, spangles, drunks, and Gods. — Sallie Ann Glassman

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign, — Alec Baldwin

Darkness engulfed me...There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold. — Amanda Hocking

He's a ghost, not a carnival magician.
-Benny Imura — Jonathan Maberry

Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass. — Wyclef Jean

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. — Jon Anderson

Welcome to the Carnival of Life, where dreams are a reality and reality is dreams gone mad. — L. Scott Ward

For as long as the carnival of capitalism lasts, the rules of logic are repealed ... — Michael Pollan

Ultimately, all diseases are magical diseases ...
("Gas Station Carnival") — Thomas Ligotti

I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border. — Edward Blake

I don't eat meat, I am not a carnival. — Melanie

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

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next. — Carrie Underwood

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 coming back. — Charles Spurgeon

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival. — Chaim Potok

Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship. — Stephen Colbert

Framed behind glass is a card from a carnival fortune-telling machine. It promises you are destined to be together
forever. — Dean Koontz

I believe that Lady Gaga is like a carnival ride. From a distance she looks fun, but up close, you don't wanna climb on that. — Bill Engvall

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

All these mirrors
carnival distortions
of selves we never were. — Basith

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

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway. — Arianna Huffington

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival. — David Mamet

Come windless invader
I am a carnival of
Stars, a poem of blood. — Sonia Sanchez

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. — George Meredith

Him a first edition of Ray Bradbury's Dark Carnival and another who thinks I owe — Tim Kreider

He looked at me then, his deep golden eyes meeting mine, and I saw a heat in them that I felt reflecting in my own. — Amanda Hocking

I could not eat a kangaroo. But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo-meringues. — Ogden Nash

Drugs are a carnival in hell. — Edith Piaf

I don't know,when they were giving out best friends at the carnival, he was all they had left-Nate — Alana Henry