The Carousel Quotes

#1. Did that happen?" asked Shadow. "Did what happen, shit-for-brains?" asked Mr. Nancy. "The hall. The fire. Tiger balls. Riding the Carousel.

Neil Gaiman

#2. Not all of us need to spend every second of our lives trying to get somewhere other than where we are. Not all of us have to grab the brass ring on the carousel. Some of us just like to go around and enjoy the ride.

Barbara Freethy

#3. My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared and really excited. You don't know what's coming next but you know it's going to be good. You can't handle it, go on the carousel.

Gina Gershon

#4. We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Joni Mitchell

#5. Shadow was amused, and a little puzzled, to realize that he was far more concerned about breaking the rules by climbing onto the carousel than he had been aiding and abetting this afternoon's bank robbery.

Neil Gaiman

#6. Under wandering stars, in the carousel of your dreams; there where the moon is listening in your life - and gentle face, mysterious Emeralds, shone into my heart.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#7. The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

Kelli O'Hara

#8. The Carousel of Progress was a physical representation of Walt's personal philosophy that people, despite their foibles, were basically decent, and that life was good in any era and would only keep getting better.

Jim Korkis

#9. General Electric backed the Carousel of Progress, which featured an Audio-Animatronic housewife, standing in her futuristic kitchen, singing about a great big beautiful tomorrow.

Eric Schlosser

#10. He listened, and then said simply, "So don't ride the roller coaster. Ride the carousel instead. Some days will be up, some days will be down, but you'll stay steady.

Kasey Mathews

#11. All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now before it kills you.

Jennifer Estep

#12. From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having made one great slow turn on a carousel to become our future, and if we have learned anything worth learning, the carousel will bring us to the one place we most need to be.

Dean Koontz

#13. I have a free couple of hours," I told him, walking toward my car, which was parked on the next block. "There's a very private, very secluded barn in Lookout Hill Park behind the carousel. I could be there in fifteen minutes."
I heard the smile in his voice. "You want me bad.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#14. Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Erma Bombeck

#15. If I had a suitcase, I would love it. I would shrink-wrap it when I traveled. I would put stickers from every place I'd ever been on it. And when I saw it on the carousel I would grab it with both hands and I'd be so happy to have it because then my adventures would really begin.

Nicola Yoon

#16. And the seasons they go 'round and 'round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game.

Joni Mitchell

#17. Is there any more futile, soul-irradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly revolve your frozen block of dinner?

Michael Pollan

#18. The carousel's over now," he tells her quietly. "This time your family is waiting for you.

Dot Hutchison

#19. Watching the kids and parents go round and round on the carousel, smiling, laughing, I felt a tap on my shoulder I turned my head it was him. You want me to take someone out for you? I think.

Charon Lloyd-Roberts

#20. Wars come and wars go,' he said. 'Things change, but the carousel is always here. It reminds people of the good times.

Glenda Millard

#21. they start in the ice garden, through the twins grow impatient with leisurely pace that celia prefers to take around the frozen trees. before they have traveled halfway through the space they are begging to ride the carousel instead.

Erin Morgenstern

#22. The city was a vast and stationary carousel, forever boarded by millions of would-be passengers who took their seats, waited and then dismounted.

J.G. Ballard

#23. I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Jay McInerney

#24. My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.

Conor Oberst

#25. Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.

John Lithgow

#26. The constant moving and fighting, the seemingly endless carousel of new people I had to meet, learn to love, and then forget - this, and not my subpar public school, was te real barrior to opportunity.

J.D. Vance

#27. There's a woman protecting herself from the sun with a carousel.

Mike Shannon

#28. The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.

Bernadette Peters

#29. Got it!" Mike announced. The GE record player slowly whirred to life, creaky as an old carousel.
"Nice," John said, raising a beer in salute. "What'd you do?"
"It wasn't on," Mike said.

Eric Spitznagel

#30. The fact that the guy who was arguably his best friend had to watch the whole thing was just part of the cluster-fuck carousel, an added ball crusher.

J.R. Ward

#31. Life is but a carousel of four seasons. Unpredictable for the most part. Happy. Unhappy. Content. Searching. Mess up the order, and they still rebound at one point or another.

Tarryn Fisher

#32. As the fashion carousel spins ever faster, the concern is that, while the stream of newness never runs out, there's going to be a good deal more crash and burn among designers in the future.

Suzy Menkes

#33. Little world, full of little people
shouting for recognition, screaming for love,
Rolling world, teeming with millions,
carousel of the hungry,
Is there food enough? Wheat and corn will not do.
The fat are the hungriest of all, the skinny the most silent.

James Kavanaugh

#34. It seemed amazing to me that one night could hold so much, from a merry-go-round to a Pop-Tart with frosting to the most beautiful singing I'd ever heard.

Sarah Dessen

#35. Step aboard and we will fly through the window, through the sky

Brian Wildsmith

#36. The tale of love and power was a continuum, much like the white carousel just outside of Acronis's hall. It turned around and around. Acronis was tired of the spin."
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance

Madison Thorne Grey

#37. The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.

Aaron Lazar

#38. Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel ... for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse.

Ilana Mercer

#39. In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature.

George Murray

#40. Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

Augusten Burroughs