Top 40 Mardi Quotes
#1. Mainstream media tends to showcase a very specific kind of Mardi Gras, but my experience of Mardi Gras is very different; it's very cultural.
Solange Knowles
#2. But still . . . there was a charge in the air. It was Mardi Gras in New Orleans, after all.
Penelope Douglas
#3. This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was our Mardi Gras before the dark days of Lent.
Heather Demetrios
#4. Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it
no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.
Mardi Ballou
#5. Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!
Nikki Sixx
#6. Like Mardi Gras and Halloween rolled into a public party at the Playboy mansion, Rio during Carnaval is like no other place on earth. And the freak-flags fly like the color guard of an invading army.
James Schannep
#7. It was something about all the stupid stuff Torian wouldn't have to do anymore - like put up with asshole tourists who peed on your house at Mardi Gras.
Julie Smith
#8. I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.
Poppy Z. Brite
#9. Yeah, I know, but word came from Artemis herself that she wanted him here. Looks like we're having a psycho reunion this week ... Oh wait, it's Mardi Gras. Duh. (Talon)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.
Bryan Batt
#11. I thought it was kind of funny when Dionysus ran a Dark-Hunter over with a Mardi Gras float a couple of years ago. That amused me for days on end. He laughed like an evil cartoon villian.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms.
If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.
Chris Rose
#14. The workroom radio, tuned to FM 88.9, emitted Muddy Waters's throaty warbling. A rez station, WOJB did its best to hit every level of musical taste. Absolute bite-ya-in-the-ass blues was aired only during the wee hours.
Tracker's favorite time and music.
Mardi Oakley Medawar
#16. She was evil. Couldn't he, who killed demons with his own hands, realize that? And now I had to run for Mardi Gras Queen because of him. Or her. I didn't know whose fault it was but there was no way I could back down now.
Jenna-Lynne Duncan
#17. My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.
Bryan Batt
#18. If she ever had a child, she would want him to grow up in San Francisco, where Mardi Gras was celebrated at least five times a year.
Armistead Maupin
#19. We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.
Craig Johnson
#20. In New Orleans I have noticed that people are happiest when they are going to funerals, making money, taking care of the dead, or putting on masks at Mardi Gras so nobody knows who they are.
Walker Percy
#21. An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.
Mark Twain
#22. The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's," adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.
Josh Alan Friedman
#23. In his closing argument, Hayes apologized to the jury for surrounding them with witnesses who weren't the most upstanding citizens, but explained that was the nature of solving crime. "Dope murders don't occur in front of bankers and clergymen," he said. In
Mardi Jo Link
#24. And they went off down the street, into the heart of Mardi Gras Day.
Tom Piazza
#26. This wasn't strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I'd befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses her virginity at a Mardi Gras party and goes soft.
Lauren Kate
#27. There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.
Louis Armstrong
#28. It's not a giant thing, like graduation, Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year's. We do get business from it. That's why we put stuff out; we don't skip it. It's our big thing for March.
Suzanne Smith
#29. At Mardi Gras, the different tribes will basically play war games, and so my brother is what you call a Flag Boy, which is more of less like a tribe's diplomat. He carries the game's standard and is really the line of where the game starts.
Christian Scott
#30. Look at you - instead of being dressed for success, you're dressed to depress.
Mardi Ballou
#31. But the reasons against going to New Orleans
that spicy southern city known for jazz and Mardi Gras and hospitality
were the very reasons we had to go.
Howard Schultz
#32. On Mardi Gras, she got his soul back and freed him. (Wulf) Oh man, that sucks. Now he's going to have to join Kyrian on the geriatric patrol. (Chris)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. On crack. It was as if the town had been placed in a blender with a giant disco ball, shaken with a Mardi Gras parade, and then had vomited a pile of glitter and tinsel all over itself.
Gina Damico
#34. New Orleans, said he usually dresses in costume for the Mardi Gras holiday, but the weather deterred him this year. Baker said he chose to celebrate a little differently - sipping cocktails under the cover of a friend's French Quarter patio balcony while watching other costumed revelers
Anonymous
#35. Mardi Gras, baby. Mardi Gras. Time when all manner of weird shit cuts loose and parties down.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. I glanced at the pain charms draped around my neck, thinking I looked like a drunken prostitute at Mardi Gras.
Kim Harrison
#37. Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere.
Max Lucado
#38. That didn't sound like them slinging beads at us. Think if I whip my shirt off, they'll go blind and leave? Nick
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#39. The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.
Adam Richman
#40. In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday, Mardi Gras, where men give women beads in the respectful and post-feminist desire to see their naked boobies.
Craig Ferguson
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