Carnivals Quotes - Page 3

• It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

  Isak Dinesen

  Silly, Mean, Littles

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• 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 masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en!

  Jerry Smith

  Halloween, Heart, Fire

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• After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It sounded like a wonderfully fun thing to do. And I wanted to write something happy about Haiti, something celebratory. And going to carnival gave me a chance to do that, because it is one of the instances in Haiti when people shed their class separation and come together.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Fun, Writing, Class

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• 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

  Fun, Distance, Believe

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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 its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Medicine, Fields

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• Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.

  Michelle Huneven

  Art, Dad, Memories

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• The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

  Win Butler

  Black, Brazil, Film

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

  Guy Finley

  Spiritual, Clever, Lying

  "7 Laws of Fearless Living" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2012.

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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. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.

  Alan Moore

  Memories, Dark, Childhood

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Graphic novel by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the quiet observer, sometimes the kid in the center of the messed-up carnival, these poems are the fireflies you’ve missed all winter, the longed-for return of the bees. Unaffected and inherently hopeful, Callihan’s work is as merciful as it is moving.

  Ada Limon

  Moving, Kids, Firefly

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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 and say, man, what are you doing here?

  Billy Joel

  Beer, Men, Rock And Roll

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• Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Wall, Doors

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship.

  Stephen Colbert

  Military, Dawn, Ships

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

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Kind, Film, Folks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Like all businesses ACID has its ups and downs. There are actually seasons when business will pick up such as Christmas time and carnival time. There are other times when business will run very slow.

  St. Lucia

  Running, Christmas Time, Acid

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Reading, Heart, Artist

  Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.11, Vintage

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• In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

  Chaim Potok

  Russia, America

  Chaim Potok (2012). “The Promise”, p.24, Anchor

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• with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic instinct and everybody more or less writing poetry - California has a pageant for breakfast, a fiesta for luncheon and a carnival for dinner. They are always electing queens. In fact any girl in California who hasn't been a queen of something before she's twenty-one is a poor prune.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Girl, Country, Queens

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• There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity; and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Real, Paris, Mourning

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• NCL ... stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry.

  Micky Arison

  Vacation, Marketing, Stronger

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• [Carnival Ride] is part of a line from my favorite song on the album, "Wheel of the World." It sums up everything that's happened to me. It's nuts to think of where I was a couple of years ago.

  Carrie Underwood

  Song, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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 old camp-scenes danced before my mind’s eye, expiring like shooting-stars in the night—merry songs which came to an end among other mountains and the dying sound of strings and flutes. And I was surprised that I had not had enough of these things and that I was not tired of the light of camp-fires.

  Sven Hedin

  Song, Stars, Eye

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• 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

  Light, Trying, Sometimes

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, February 4, 2003.

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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

  Queens, Moving, Winning

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.174, Macmillan

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• Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Ambition, Height, Too Much

  "The war on drugs and alcohol is a war against human nature" by Lewis Lapham, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2012.

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