Carousels Quotes

• Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

  Pharrell Williams

  Life Is, Up And Down

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• We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

  Joni Mitchell

  Philosophy, Looks, Return

  Song: The Circle Game

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• And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

  Joni Mitchell

  Time, Games, Circles

  Song: The Circle Game

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• My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.

  Conor Oberst

  Spinning

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• My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sunset, Soul, Empty

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

  George Cukor

  Horse, Love Is, Looking For Love

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• I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

  Sylvia Plath

  Burning, Earth

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• After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

  Adam Gopnik

  Rewards, Spinning, Ifs

  Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

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• Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

  Jay McInerney

  Life, Horse, House

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.94, Vintage

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• My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared and really excited. You don't know what's coming next but you know it's going to be good. You can't handle it, go on the carousel

  Gina Gershon

  Goes On, Next, Scared

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• Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she's fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it is bad to say anything to them.

  J. D. Salinger

  Horse, Fall, Kids

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• There's a woman protecting herself from the sun with a carousel.

  Mike Shannon

  Sun

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• Little world, full of little people
  shouting for recognition, screaming for love,
  Rolling world, teeming with millions,
  carousel of the hungry,
  Is there food enough? Wheat and corn will not do.
  The fat are the hungriest of all, the skinny the most silent.

  James Kavanaugh

  People, Rolling, World

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• The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Moon, Cymbals

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

  Bernadette Peters

  Broadway, Vivid, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!

  David Lodge

  Horse, Eye, Space

  David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.

  J. D. Salinger

  Fall, Kids, Say Anything

  "The Catcher in the Rye". Book by J. D. Salinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 1951.

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• Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Arms, Seven, Should

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.36, Macmillan

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• Four sits down on the edge of the carousel, leaning against a plastic horse's foot. His eyes lift to the sky, where there are no stars, only a round moon peking through a thin layer of clouds. The muscles in his arms are relaxed; his hand rests on the back of his neck. He looks almost comfortable, holding that gun to his shoulder. I close my eyes briefly. Why does he distract me so easily? I need to focus.

  Veronica Roth

  Horse, Stars, Eye

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• I have a free couple of hours," I told him, walking toward my car, which was parked on the next block. "There's a very private, very secluded barn in Lookout Hill Park behind the carousel. I could be there in fifteen minutes." I heard the smile in his voice. "You want me bad.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Couple, Block, Voice

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.907, Simon and Schuster

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• All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now before it kills you.

  Jennifer Estep

  Want, Novelty, Worn

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Tangled Threads”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

  John Lithgow

  Looks, Stories, West

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• Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel... for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse.

  Ilana Mercer

  Excuse, Grievance, Mindless

  "The Ridiculous Racial Merry-Go-Round". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. May 02, 2014.

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• In my mind, only one inviolable precept exists in terms of being a successful writer: you have to write. The unspoken sub-laws of that one precept are: to write, you must start writing and then finish writing. And then, most likely, start writing all over again because this writing "thing" is one long and endless ride on a really weird (but pretty awesome) carousel. Cue the calliope music.

  Chuck Wendig

  Writing, Successful, Law

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