Carnivals Quotes

• Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mask, Shows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.487

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• Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

  Victor Hugo

  Constant, Left

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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

  David Mamet

  Drama, Amusement, Film

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• Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

  Aisha Tyler

  Marriage, Carnival Rides

  Aisha Tyler (2004). “Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl”, Dutton Adult

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• I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

  Edward Blake

  Borders, Crime

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

  George Meredith

  Love, Egoism, Touchstones

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

  Arianna Huffington

  Games, Literature, Toss

  "Pigs at the Trough". Book by Arianna Huffington, New York: Crown Publishers, 1st edition ed., 2003.

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• 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

  People, Giving, Church

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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

  Eye, Knowing, Next

  Song: Wheel Of The World, Album: Carnival Ride, 2007

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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 rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.

  Randy Quaid

  Running, Moving, Kids

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• 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

  Happiness, Animal, Games

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 20, 2011

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• Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

  Matthea Harvey

  Carnival Rides

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Children, Thinking, Shields

  Interview with David Barsamia, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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

  Vernon Howard

  Crowds, Costumes, Disguise

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• During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.

  Xavier Forneret

  Wisdom, Men, Mask

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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

  Laughing, Wish, Littles

  Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Originality

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• I stumble through a carnival of horrors

  Anne Rice

  Horror, Lestat, Vampire Lestat

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.767, Ballantine Books

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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, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.

  Joanne Harris

  Summer, Wind, Rushing

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• I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

  Lea Thompson

  Thinking, Break

  "Lea Thompson Admits She Likes the Seedy Side of Splinterheads". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. November 2009.

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• Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Stars, Blood, Invaders

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems”, p.25, Beacon Press

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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, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.

  Katherine Dunn

  Sweet, Rain, Light

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Oct 18, 2012

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• If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

  Stephen Covey

  Crazy, Reflection, Mirrors

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Art, Media, Tonight

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Children, Humorous

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, A Defence of Baby-Worship, 1901.

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