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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.

    People   Rolling   World  
  • 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.

    Running   Moon   Cymbals  
    Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam
  • My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.

    Sunset   Soul   Empty  
    Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.6, Macmillan
  • I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.

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

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

  • 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!

    Horse   Eye   Space  
    David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Macmillan Pub Co
  • Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

  • 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

    Goes On   Next   Scared  
  • I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

  • 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.

    Horse   Fall   Kids  
  • 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.

    Horse   Stars   Eye  
  • 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.

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

    Time   Games   Circles  
    Song: The Circle Game
  • I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

    Life   Horse   House  
    Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.94, Vintage
  • I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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

    Looks   Stories   West  
  • 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 (2011). “Tangled Threads”, p.246, Simon and Schuster
  • After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

    Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
  • Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

  • 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.

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

    "The Catcher in the Rye". Book by J. D. Salinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 1951.
  • The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

    Broadway   Vivid   Firsts  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

    Song: The Circle Game
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