Carnies Quotes

• We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and people and lights and animals and the dark sadness that lurks in the coners and beneath the rides and in the trailers after hours. So they ride teh Ferris wheel, and at the top, they think they've left it all behind They've ascended to a place where they can take things seriously. Where they can be taken seriously.

  N.D. Wilson

  Laughter, Taken, Sadness

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• I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.

  Rich Sommer

  Simple, Hands, Balance

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• Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.

  Penn Jillette

  Gun, Night, Thinking

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• I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

  Rebel Wilson

  Dog, Want, Steps

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• We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall.

  Elvis Presley

  Wall, Perfect, Combination

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• God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.

  Nick Cave

  Voice, Bags, Burning

  "And the Ass Saw the Angel". Book by Nick Cave, 1989.

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