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The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes. -- Ray Bradbury
My soul is an empty carousel at sunset. -- Pablo Neruda
I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out. -- Sylvia Plath
My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops. -- Conor Oberst
There's a woman protecting herself from the sun with a carousel. -- Mike Shannon
Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse. -- George Cukor
We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind. -- Joni Mitchell
After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so. -- Adam Gopnik
Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on. -- Pharrell Williams
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? -- Erma Bombeck
The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience. -- Bernadette Peters
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you. -- Sloane Crosley
I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness. -- Eda LeShan

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