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  • I stumble through a carnival of horrors

    Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.767, Ballantine Books
  • 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.

    Source: arcthemagazine.com
  • The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again. . . But how. The hot summer rustles Like a carnival outside my window; I have long had this premonition Of a bright day and a deserted house.

    Summer   Memories   Long  
    Anna Akhmatova, “Requiem”
  • 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.

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

    Eye   Knowing   Next  
    Song: Wheel Of The World, Album: Carnival Ride, 2007
  • A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.

    Horse   Fear   Fighting  
    Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”
  • Republican Ted Cruz announced that he will run for president in 2016. So finally, Carnival is no longer the most dangerous cruise in America.

  • 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.

    Laughing   Wish   Littles  
    Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
  • I think honestly when I was younger I use to love going to carnivals in Long Island. I use to love carnival season; I would drive to every town going to carnivals. That was definitely a favorite memory.

    "Interview: “Dollhouse” singer Melanie Martinez plays nice with GroundSounds". Interview with Jon Berrien, www.groundsounds.com. May 28, 2014.
  • [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.

    Song   Couple   Thinking  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • 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.

  • Drugs are a carnival in hell.

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

    Queens   Moving   Winning  
    Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.174, Macmillan
  • I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

  • 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?

  • I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.

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

    Games   Literature   Toss  
    "Pigs at the Trough". Book by Arianna Huffington, New York: Crown Publishers, 1st edition ed., 2003.
  • Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

    Mask   Carnivals   Shows  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.487
  • Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

    Holiday   Play   Effort  
    Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.206
  • The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

    Art   Media   Tonight  
    Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
  • I believe that we will see cases like these that will continue because we're talking about companies that are doing business with a tyranny and a dictatorship. And when they do business with a dictatorship, a tyranny, they will have problems like this. This, I believe, is the beginning of several problems that there will be over the next few years because we are talking about American companies that now want to get cozy with this regime, and they will find themselves in very serious problems such as those we're seeing at this time with the Carnival Company.

    Believe   Talking   Years  
    Source: www.univision.com
  • 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.

    Art   Wall   Doors  
    Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee
  • On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it!" He was writing from Karlsruhe, in the midst of his triumphal tour through Germany. That letter marks the earliest known mention of the variations that would become famous as "The Carnival of Venice." At the time of his letter, Paganini had already performed the piece in at least four concerts. From then on, it would be one of his most popular compositions.

  • 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.

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

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

    "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, February 4, 2003.
  • I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.

    Travel   Eye   Sight  
  • Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

    James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.275, Pluto Press
  • In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

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

    People   Giving   Church  
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