Top 26 Funhouse Quotes

#1. I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

Jacqueline Woodson

#2. That doesn't sound like my Margo, she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors.

John Green

#3. like many families, everyone wandered around like children in a funhouse - they could hardly see one another around the corners, and what they could see was completely distorted.

James Hannaham

#4. He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator
though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.

John Barth

#5. Great passions may either bring great victories or great sorrows! In both cases, it is always a great privilege to have great passions!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and begetting children occupies my whole life. Don't have time to write"?

Sylvia Plath

#7. For whom is the Funhouse a house?

David Foster Wallace

#8. The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.

Maxwell Maltz

#9. Remember kids: brush your greens, eat your teeth, stay in milk, drink your school, don't do sleep, and get your eight hours of drugs!

Robert Smigel

#10. Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

Caryl Churchill

#11. What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

Jack McBrayer

#12. I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

Darin Strauss

#13. The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Milton Friedman

#14. The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.

Eli Roth

#15. For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion.

John Barth

#16. Lieutenant Governor Khan is the Governor in a funhouse mirror. He's short, rotund, and balding. I'm

Nat Kozinn

#17. Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized.

George W. Bush

#18. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

Bruce Sterling

#19. Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge ... . But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.

Howard E. Koch

#20. One reason for not writing a lost-in-the-funhouse story is that either everybody's felt what Ambrose feels, in which case it goes without saying, or else no normal person feels such things, in which case Ambrose is a freak.

John Barth

#21. During the interim, no matter how much agony the man may feel, he also experiences excitement, the excitement of learning how to cope with a closed society that reflects free society as a funhouse mirror reflects the human form: everything is there, but distorted.

Edward Bunker

#22. This used to be a funhouse but now it's full of evil clowns.

Pink

#23. Today I saw a guy who looked like me in a funhouse mirror. He looked at me like, Hey, that's how I look reflected in the pond!

Dana Gould

#24. Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.

Haruki Murakami

#25. War was waged to make peace. Abuse was love. Welcome to the funhouse, where strange mirrors reflect the faces of hell.

Dean Koontz

#26. When you lived in the funhouse, the laff riot just never stopped.

Stephen King

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