(112 quotes found)
“Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.”
David Mamet
“It's California I'm worried about. I don't want you to become a laughingstock, a carnival or the beginning of a circus in America where we just throw people out as soon as they make a tough decision. . . . Don't do this. Don't do this.”
Bill Clinton
“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.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Carnies built this country, the carnival part of it anyway.”
Homer Simpson
“I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.”
Edward Blake
“The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.”
George Meredith
“The carnival was the predecessor to the burlesque world-this all tied together, the psychic, the hypnotic... That gave me a good foundation for playing the girlie shows, my opportunity to play for female dancers. I also played midway music and worked the sex shows.”
Anton LaVey
“Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.”
Victor Hugo
“There is no prettier fall then carnival”
Toon Hermans
“Carnival took the myth out of cruising. We took what some considered elitist and made it an everyman vacation. So why not do the same with wine? The beverage of choice for most Americans is still beer, but we want to create an awareness that wine is not just for the snooty or the snobbish.”
Bob Dickinson
