Top 100 Ferris Quotes
#1. Life is like a Ferris wheel, going 'round and 'round in one direction. Some of us are lucky enough to remember each trip around." From: Yesterday - A Novel of Reincarnation
Samyann
#3. Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night. A merry-go-round, a ferris wheel, a kiss from a girl.
Joe Hill
#4. Sometimes life is like this Ferris wheel. Even when everything seems wrong, the sky is black, it's starting to rain, and some lady throws up on you, the wheel will keep right on turning to spite you. (the Old Man)
Michele Young-Stone
#5. I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.
Gabrielle Zevin
#6. Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.
John Hughes
#7. They have the big ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months, so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.' He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment.
Nia Long
#8. I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.
Ryan Gosling
#9. Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.
Jennifer Brown
#10. Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now.
Ayn Rand
#11. Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting.
Daria Snadowsky
#12. My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'
Kris Allen
#13. Hey ya'll, you'll never believe what I just heard! Apparently some girl totally flipped out on the Ferris wheel."
I paled.
"Oh God, it was you wasn't it?" he looked at me and busted out laughing. "It figures.
Micalea Smeltzer
#14. When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.
John Hughes
#16. I could stay with Mears-Starbuck for forty-seven years, I thought. I could live with a crazy girlfriend, get my left ear sliced off and maybe inherit Ferris' job when he retired.
Charles Bukowski
#18. Do you know what I dream about? My dream would be to die looking at the lights on the Ferris wheel. When I get old, when my body has given up, that's what I want to see. And in that dream, you're standing next to me.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#19. As William Ferris is fond of saying, "in Africa when an older person dies, a library burns.
Jacqueline L. Tobin
#20. It wasn't till they were on the bridge that Delly asked RB, "So, Ferris Boyd's your favorite?" She didn't mind, mostly.
RB answered so fast, though, she knew he wasn't fibbing. "She's my favorite friend," he told her. "You're my favorite everything.
Katherine Hannigan
#21. The Ferris wheel came to a stop two seats down from the top. "I've been thinking about you a lot this past week," she said, and it came out a lot more moony than she intended. He lowered his gaze from the sky and met her eyes. His smile was mischievous. "Oh?
Sarah Addison Allen
#22. If you're getting chased by a lion, you don't need to run faster than the lion, just the people running with you. - Tim Ferris
David Nihill
#23. Chicago at the time owned a lake the size of a sea, several advertising firms, at least six tribes of marauding criminals, healthy herds of sailors grazing free, the first Ferris wheel in all the world, and more wind than it could care for.
Catherynne M Valente
#24. You never know how great a kiss can feel, when you're stopped at the top of a Ferris wheel.
Freddy Cannon
#25. A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn't have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.
Veronica Roth
#27. The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#28. It feels as though we're going in slow motion. I think we'll never get away. But eventually the Ferris wheel is far enough away that it could be a moving constellation.
Lauren DeStefano
#29. Wished she didn't spend so much time worrying about the end of it all, but she couldn't help it. Being at the top of your career was like being at the top of a Ferris wheel: you knew that you had to keep moving, and you knew which way you were going. You had no choice.
Nick Hornby
#30. Ferris had created more than simply an engineering novelty. Like the inventors of the elevator, he had conjured an entirely new physical sensation.
Erik Larson
#31. I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E.B. White
#32. Whatever else he might be, Jimmy Ferris was special and complicated, beautiful and beastly, all rolled into one.
Kylie Scott
#33. G had fallen asleep and tumbled into the motor assembly of the Ferris wheel. It spat him out.
Fred Barnett
#34. Ferris, himself fed up with construction delays and Burnham's pestering, had told Gronau to turn the wheel or tear it off the tower.
Erik Larson
#35. When Mr. Ferris found out about the Broadway play, Clarence didn't stop rocking during the whole lab.
Gary D. Schmidt
#36. It's always the guy who gets the diarrhea on the commercial at an inconvenient moment. As if you've ever been in a situation: 'You know, this would be a great time to get the runs, you think? I mean the sun's out, we're on the ferris wheel - what are we waiting for?
Richard Jeni
#37. Are you afraid of dying, Ferris?'
'I'm afraid of not living.
Maria McCann
#38. A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady then. There is no one left to keep me steady now.
Veronica Roth
#39. Stupid Jimmy Ferris and his amazing mouth and penis. Who needed him? Not me, I could look after myself.
Kylie Scott
#40. In the distance, they begin shutting down the rides and turning off lights. There's something beautiful and eerie about a darkened, unmoving Ferris wheel.
Becky Albertalli
#41. I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words in my head and tried to feel the shock of them, but they remained strange and cruel, far removed from Ferris and me. It was simpler to say I was in love.
Maria McCann
#42. People would say, 'Boy, I really loved you in Ferris Bueller, and it would really aggravate me. I thought I was a one-trick pony, and people had seen the trick. Now that things have worked out and I've gone on to other things, I'm really pleased that people enjoy it.
Alan Ruck
#43. A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water.
Richard Brautigan
#44. I'm a child of the '80s, so like everyone else, I love all those classic, formative movies - 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' 'Pretty in Pink,' 'Sixteen Candles,' 'Dirty Dancing,' etc., with 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' existing on a separate, slightly higher plane.
Lauren Weisberger
#45. My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.
Gilbert Gottfried
#46. People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare.
Kevin Spacey
#47. They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.
Bob Dylan
#48. And where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high and brought them low again, as if it were not merely a carnival ride but also a metaphor for the basic pattern of human experience.
Dean Koontz
#49. You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn't be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.
Amy Harmon
#50. Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now ... explain to me again just who hates who, and why?
Ellen Kushner
#51. Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.
Joni Mitchell
#52. Hope is a Ferris wheel-
It takes Low and High;
And when you reach the Top,
It's like you can touch The Sky!
And when it takes you Down-
Hope becomes A Thing
That, When you're getting Off,
You take With you to Bring.
Robin Herrera
#53. Atop a Ferris wheel, Orson Welles told Joseph Cotten how Italy's thirty years of war and terror and bloodshed had produced the Renaissance and Michelangelo, and how Switzerland's five hundred years of democracy and peace had produced, goddamn, only the cuckoo clock.
Kevin Wilson
#54. Riders on the Ferris Wheel got the clearest, most horrific view of what happened next.
Erik Larson
#55. He signed the letter: George Washington Gale Ferris.
Erik Larson
#56. The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.
Fareed Zakaria
#57. A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.
Joshua Ferris
#58. His recent dungeon experience had persuaded him that opportunites for good things should be grabbed and not postponed. You never knew when you wouldn't be around anymore.
Jean Ferris
#59. I swore never to use the emoticon ever ... until one day, offhandedly and without much thought, I used my first and, shortly thereafter, in spite of my initial resistance, became a regular staple of my daily correspondence
Joshua Ferris
#60. it takes two people to cut you to the heart: an enemy to slander you and a friend to tell you what the enemy said.
Monica Ferris
#61. The connected get more connected while the disconnected get more disconnected.
Joshua Ferris
#62. Christian looked at her fondly. When she was happy, so was he.
Jean Ferris
#63. Her internalization of Catholicism and its institutional disappointments suited a dental office perfectly, where guilt was often our last resort for motivating the masses.
Joshua Ferris
#64. I think we're losing sight of what our ultimate goal is here, said Genevieve. But we feared that if she was washed out, people would look right past the flyer.
Joshua Ferris
#65. As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.
Jean Ferris
#66. My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.
Pam Ferris
#67. It probably wouldn't last. It never does. But it would come back around again. That's how life works. And that's why it's important to treasure the peaceful times-so you can persevere through the other kind.
Jean Ferris
#68. We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure - and always shall, so long as we keep doing science.
Timothy Ferris
#69. The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
Joshua Ferris
#70. I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didn't know what it was like to be an actor.
Pam Ferris
#71. We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours. Then a day would pass in perfect harmony with our projects, our family members, and our coworkers, and we couldn't believe we were getting paid for this.
Joshua Ferris
#72. We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
Joshua Ferris
#73. Freedom of religion in America is all fine and good until you start believing in nothing, and then it is a crime to be punished.' " "Is
Joshua Ferris
#74. If you hate the Yankees so much," Connie asked me, "why did you move to New York?" "To find out what kind of city could make a monster like a Yankees fan.
Joshua Ferris
#75. I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.
Jean Ferris
#76. You go to grab your moments and squeeze them dry. Enjoy them while you're having them. Then remember and enjoy them all over again in your memory. And try to have more good ones than bad ones - - or at least remember more of the good ones.
Jean Ferris
#77. Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they don't talk about anything else.
Pam Ferris
#78. After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.
Joshua Ferris
#79. It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.
Joshua Ferris
#80. You're not dying, you just can't think of anything good to do.
Ferris Bueller
#81. Some days felt longer than other days. Some days felt like two whole days. Unfortunately those days were never weekend days. Our Saturdays and Sundays passed in half the time of a normal workday. In other words, some weeks it felt like we worked ten straight days and had only one day off.
Joshua Ferris
#82. This is some kind of life, isn't it? Something good happening inside something bad.
Jean Ferris
#83. When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.
William R. Ferris
#84. It's a good day when you can get two birds stoned at once.
Jean Ferris
#85. The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.
Joshua Ferris
#86. I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.
Pam Ferris
#88. I listened to Karen Woo give an explaination of photosynthesis once," he said. "God only knows why they were discussing photosynthesis.They hung on her every word, like she was a PBS special. Her explaination didn't even involve sunlight. These people will believe anything. They will say anything.
Joshua Ferris
#89. And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after.
Jean Ferris
#90. Everything was always something, but something - and here was the rub - could never be everything.
Joshua Ferris
#92. But I did like looking at her. It was harder now, knowing all the ways she sucked, but she was still gorgeous.
Joshua Ferris
#93. We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates white only are allowed into that world. And removing the Confederate flag from public view to the pages of history is long overdue.
William R. Ferris
#94. I think a proud Southerner is a Southerner who is aware of his or her past, and being proud of one's past does not mean you accept it. It means that you realize that we've come through the fire, and we're headed in another direction.
William R. Ferris
#95. We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves.
Joshua Ferris
#96. Horatio leaned toward her, "What is the secret of joy?"
Mousey thought for a moment. "Doing what you like best."
Of course. How simple. And how true.
Jean Ferris
#97. No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.
Jean Ferris
#98. I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.
Joshua Ferris
#100. I would really like that, Betsy, to cheer and jeer and hoot and root alongside a band of brothers. I would love that. But do you have any idea how much attention you have to pay to a Red Sox game? Even a regular-season Red Sox game?
Joshua Ferris
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