Top 405 Carnival Rides Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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.

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

I stumble through a carnival of horrors

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

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

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Above all shadows rides the sun.

Nothing says summer to me more than Notting Hill Carnival.

I've been around this game for a long time - a lot of plane rides, a lot of bus rides, a lot of pregame speeches, a lot of national anthems.

Art rides in on pleasure.

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

What is the moral? Who rides may read.

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

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

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

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

Well, a good ole boy is somebody that rides around in a pick-up truck - which I do - and drinks beer and puts 'em in a litter bag. A redneck's one that rides around in a truck and drinks beer and throws 'em out the window.

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

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

A friend and I were talking about how I don't like carnival rides that make me dizzy. I looked up from the conversation and thought, 'Dizzy - that sounds like a great title for a song.' The next day, I went into the studio with some co-writers, and we wrote that song.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides. So, all this to say, I don't have a favorite ride. I don't go on rides. Well, that's not true. A few years ago I had a beautiful, romantic moment on the Ferris wheel at Coney Island, known as the Wonder Wheel, and so I guess that's my favorite ride, though even that, to be frank, terrified me.

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.

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

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

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

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

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

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

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.

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

Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.

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

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

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

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

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

A word only writes its night and rides its dream.

Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.

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

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.

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

Lying rides upon debt's back.

A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides

The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn to some common experience, or maybe we're pulled in by the people we care about. Our friends, our families can drag us onto coasters and Tilt-A-Whirls that are really meant for them. But in the end, no matter whose rides we find ourselves on, the experience is all our own.

Life is a horse: either you ride it or it rides you.

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

Picking roles, my way of choosing them is vastly different now than it was a long time ago, but I can only be that way now because of what I've learned from the past. So I'm choosing now not to choose any work, because when you've had such a nice ride, unexpected rides and fulfilling rides, you really don't want to take a step backwards. It's really made me satisfied in a way that I wasn't looking for, but I was blessed with it and now I feel really full, in a good way, where I don't need to rush out and go find something.

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

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

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.

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.

'Veep' has been one of the best rides of my life.

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

I love rides. I'm such an immature person.