I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
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.
Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides
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.
There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.
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.
How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
My mind is like a theme park, because it's fun and there's lots of cool stuff and you can take rides.
At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.
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.
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.
Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.
When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
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?
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.
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.
Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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!
Republican Ted Cruz announced that he will run for president in 2016. So finally, Carnival is no longer the most dangerous cruise in America.
I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.
My dad is a gaucho. He wakes in the middle of the night and rides a horse for a living.
Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.
I never drank, never party, Carnival, none of that.
Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.
Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.
Living in New York always felt to me like living in the middle of a carnival. It never stopped. There was something very exciting about it.
Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.
You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is 'rider' and who is 'horse.'
I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs are on.
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.
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).
Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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.
Dartmouth Winter Carnival opens, proving once again that bitter cold is no obstacle to going completely out of control.
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.
He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.
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.
I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk.
Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
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.
God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.
The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.
This is the biggest night of my entire life and everybody's career rides on my DJ set
[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.
I attempt to connect with my muse and go on demon rides.
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.
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.
A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.
Each of the CDs prior to 'Flirting With Twilight' were more like roller-coaster rides.
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