Quotes About The County Fair

#1. It was one of the moments you stay in, to hell with all the troubles of before and after. The sky is blue and the dead are coming back. Later in the afternoon, with sad resignation, the county fair bares its breasts.

Denis Johnson

#2. I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish you're not sure you're going to keep. Or some prize potato you're hoping will win a prize at the county fair.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. People in Indiana like to see their politicians at the county fair or the Rotary Club.

Richard Mourdock

#4. Here I was, telling him a heartwarming story about my first and only pet, a goldfish that died the day after I won it with a well-placed ping-pong ball at the County Fair, and he had a still-breathing corpse in the trunk.

Nicole Castle

#5. What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.

Stephanie Perkins

#6. She had been like a roller coaster aficionado for whom tame county fair roller coasters were as good as the ones that spun you upside down and dropped you so fast your eyes turned red. It was all just a ride.

Peter Straub

#7. Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.

Ezra Pound

#8. Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Benny Goodman

#9. I'm the sort of man who's doomed to be a failure and I'll go to my grave without ever knowing whether I was real gold or just tinsel!

Gustave Flaubert

#10. A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#11. From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a rich and storied history in American cuisine. However, street food has been around for thousands of years. In fact, street food is believed to have originated as far back as Ancient Rome.

Homaro Cantu

#12. Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

Michael J. Jackson

#13. For months in the fall of 2001, our highways looked like a county fair on wheels. "Look out, Al-Qaeda
patriot on board!" I once saw a guy with five flags tell a guy with four flags to go back to Afghanistan.

Bill Maher

#14. At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

Marla Sokoloff

#15. Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition.

Cynthia Nixon

#16. I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

Jessie Ware

#17. This ain't the 4-H rodeo at the Pocahontas County Fair ... this is horse racing

Jaimy Gordon

#18. The experts spent a great deal of time and study working out a formula which would be fair to every State and fair to every county and fair to every child, and would put the education dollar where that dollar is needed most, now.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#19. Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities.

Eric Holder

#20. The first time someone asked me if I was pregnant, I was eating friend cheese at the Summit County Fair

Olive B. Persimmon

#21. Perfection scribbled out or the imperfection that makes you, me, anyone perfect and complete because it includes the truth of our mortality. Get

Samantha Hunt

#22. Seeing it erases any premonitions I might have had, because even if I felt something was wrong, I never would have pictured this.

David Levithan

#23. I think that there are laughs in all aspects of life. I'm not a planner; stuff comes along and you read it, and if it scares you or if you think, 'Oh my God, this is so good. I hope I don't screw it up,' then you should probably do it.

Julie White

#24. Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#25. The river wears away the rock to get to the ocean ... so it is with the soul in search of its creator.

L.G. Space

#26. Soul (Atma), Absolute Knowledge (Gnan) and the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma) are one and the same element.

Dada Bhagwan

#27. And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.

Spartacus