Top 135 Carnival Quotes & Sayings

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

Nothing says summer to me more than Notting Hill Carnival.

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

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

In Toronto, the film festival is like a carnival... entire families come to it.

Paying to teach in the trenches was like putting my face through a cutout hole at a carnival while a quarterback threw pies at me. At least with a carnival, I'd see it coming.

I'm very romantic when I masturbate. Sometimes I light a candle...then I try and shoot it out. It's like a carnival.

I went to the carnival a lot. The carousel was my favorite ride as a kid.

According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.

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

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.

I stumble through a carnival of horrors

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

I never drank, never party, Carnival, none of that.

Despite having lived in London for most of my life - and being a huge fan of dancing and drinking in the street - I've never been to Notting Hill carnival.

I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.

If you squint at 'Deadwood,' you can see 'Game of Thrones' coming. That's the show that first got me thinking 'Carnival Row' could be a series.

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

Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.

I was more or less a carnival attraction. I was a freak show.

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

Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.

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

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

That's exactly what Octomom is: a carnival attraction.

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

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

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

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

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

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

To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.

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

So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

Television has borrowed from the carnival midway the barker's tease: "Coming Up Next: a Perfect 10" (Sex? Bo Derek? No, the weatherman comes on to say that tomorrow will be nice).

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.

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

The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

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!

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

[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.

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.

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 tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence. I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out no matter how much it is purged or scoured by any white-light religion.

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.

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

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

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

It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was a long time ago. Before it was do as you like, take to the streets.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Carnival dancers are such a vital part of any carnival, whether it's in Rio, Mardi Gras or even Notting Hill Carnival in my home town of London. Once you see them, you know it's time to party.

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.

During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.

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

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.