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Quotes About Carousel

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
All floated upon an evening carousel, with fitful drifts of music wafting up here and there, and voices calling and murmuring from houses that were whitely haunted by television.
~ Ray Bradbury
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
The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.
~ Kelli O'Hara
I used to work on a carousel on a boardwalk in Coney Island.
~ Neal Adams
In college, my voice never quite fit the classic ones like 'Music Man' or 'Carousel'.
~ Cristin Milioti
Normal.Un cuvant atat de simplu,banal.Ciudat cum stralucea acum,ca un inel de alama pe un carusel, sclipind de promisiuni,atat de aproape,dar cu neputinta de atins.
~ Kelley Armstrong
feels that everything that just happened between them is a pretty illusion, a ride on a carousel. Here is his world: Sadie.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.
~ Pharrell Williams
General Electric backed the Carousel of Progress, which featured an Audio-Animatronic housewife, standing in her futuristic kitchen, singing about "a great big beautiful tomorrow.
~ Eric Schlosser
You never know what you're going to get, and children have their own personalities immediately. I was watching little kids on a carousel. Some kids were jumping on the horses; some kids were afraid of the horses; some kids were betting on the horses.
~ Rita Rudner
Walt, examining Chris's record collection, said, "You have four different recordings of Carousel." "It's my favorite thing on earth." "Is that because it says that people die but true love lasts forever?" "I … Maybe. I thought I just liked the music." To Tom, behind Walt's back, she mouthed, "How'd he get so smart?
~ Ethan Mordden
Prior to being in 'Carousel,' I had only seen the movie. So, when I read the script, I felt like it was a lot deeper than the movie portrayed it to be.
~ Joshua Henry
I went to the carnival a lot. The carousel was my favorite ride as a kid.
~ Melanie Martinez
With 'Wicked,' I was stepping into a role that I didn't make so that felt like I had more boundaries then I did with 'Carousel.'
~ Lindsay Mendez
It was incomprehensible that her entire life had been a carousel of unhappiness, drinking, failed promises, and loneliness, all turning around and around a single afternoon encounter with this man.
~ Joe Hill
One minute you're walking through a dark woods, alone, and then the landscape shifts, and you see it. Something wondrous and unexpected, almost magical, that you never would have found had you not kept going. Like a new friend who feels like an old one, or a memory you'll never forget. Maybe even a carousel.
~ Sarah Dessen Saint Anything
This is not to say that history repeats itself. Time is not a carousel on which we might, next time around, snatch the brass ring by being better prepared. Rather we see the past as flowing powerfully through the present and think that charting historical currents can enhance our ability to navigate them.
~ Edwin G. Burrows
If there's one thing I could wish for right now, it would be to have one of those horses from the merry-go-round - they were the most exciting thing to go on as a kid.
~ Deborah Mailman
The city was a vast and stationary carousel, forever boarded by millions of would-be passengers who took their seats, waited and then dismounted.
~ ballard j g ii
Got it!" Mike announced. The GE record player slowly whirred to life, creaky as an old carousel. "Nice," John said, raising a beer in salute. "What'd you do?" "It wasn't on," Mike said.
~ Eric Spitznagel
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
~ Erma Bombeck
Dormii indolenzito in una giostra di sogni.
~ Erri De Luca
In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature.
~ George Murray