Carnivalesque Quotes & Sayings

Chemists did it in their tubes and doctors did it with patience, but only a techie would do it in geometric progression. — Greg Bear

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He'll do more than we expect. — Mary E. DeMuth

You can't just say I love you, you have to LIVE I love you — Ben Harper

From an actor's point of view, if you are watching something, and you see improv, you know it. Because of your experience, you just bloody know that wasn't written. — Paul Eenhoorn

I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic. — Jim Larranaga

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The morning was, therefore, a mixture of a plenitude of densities, from the presence of the placid birds, to the mundane premonition, to the spring of small glisters which accompanied that autumnal rain. The music, in a simple whistle, recreated a new universe with the parish and all the hearts that were witness to it- padre, pigeons, swallows, the world!- were clothed in a new carnivalesque colouring: a celebration from within. — Ondjaki

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved. — Simon Van Booy

The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence. — Joseph Addison

Only in Italy are elections as carnivalesque as they are here. Except, in Ukraine, the carnival is always anarchistic, and more or less uncontrollable. — Andrey Kurkov

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven . — John Campbell Shairp

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes — Jake LaMotta

My happiest moments are those when I think nothing, want nothing, and dream nothing, being lost in a torpor like some accidental plant, like mere moss growing on life's surface. I savour without bitterness this absurd awareness of being nothing, this foretaste of death and extinction. — Pessoa, Fernando

Before product/market fit, your only job that matters is to build a great product. — Sam Altman

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. — Walter Savage Landor

Just imagine what would happen if your daughter was standing there. What would you do, how would you fight? So you have to join hands, you have to take each child as your daughter. Soon you will feel their sorrow and then you will feel the strength that comes out of you to protect them. — Anuradha Koirala

You have to be your biggest believer. — Marina And The Diamonds