110 Amusement Park Quotes

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Famous Amusement Park Quotes

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. - Anthony Bourdain

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. — Anthony Bourdain

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. — Walt Disney

When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, "But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty." I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be. — Walt Disney

Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone. — Walt Disney

I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place... — Walt Disney

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland. — Damon Lindelof

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at. — David Sedaris

For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland. — John Steinbeck

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. - Evan Esar

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. — Evan Esar

I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take. — Anjelica Huston

Laughter is an instant vacation. - Milton Berle

Laughter is an instant vacation. — Milton Berle

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real. — Jean Baudrillard

The national park is the best idea America ever had. — James Bryce

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir

The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home. — Lil' Kim

Short Amusement Park Quotes

  • Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring. — Mae West
  • Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination. — Elbert Hubbard
  • I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out. — Sylvia Plath
  • God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next. — Carrie Underwood
  • It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round. — Sayings
  • My soul is an empty carousel at sunset. — Pablo Neruda
  • Don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride. — Bill Hicks
  • Your library is your paradise. — Desiderius Erasmus
  • I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. — E. B. White
  • Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on. — Pharrell Williams

Amusement Park Image Quotes

Amusement park quote The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

Theme Parks Quotes

The first 2 years of being an entrepreneur is a roller coaster ride. The goal is to eventually own the roller coaster and the theme park. — Patrick Bet-David

I love Orlando. I'm in Orlando six times a year. I love the theme parks. — James Murray

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining. — John Lasseter

Amusement park quote The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand. — Renzo Piano

Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with. — Walt Disney

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108. — Doug Coupland

Amusement park quote Keep myself amused and others confused.
Keep myself amused and others confused.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida. — Carl Hiaasen

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. — John Lithgow

I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada. — Tia Carrere

Amusement Quotes

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born. — Ronald Reagan

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. — Chinua Achebe

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious. — Julia Child

Amusement park quote Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality — Grace Kelly

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. — Gustave Flaubert

Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything...you can always control something. Your body - Use it...Amuse it...because one day...you're going to lose it. — Jeff Hardy

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. — Plato

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. — Voltaire

By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and more of a daily adventure than it could possibly be if everyone were alike. — Isabel Briggs Myers

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. — Clifton Fadiman

Roller Coaster Quotes

My new one (tattoo) says 'Never a failure, always a lesson' and is kind of my mantra to life, just a reminder. My life is just a crazy rollercoaster every day and whenever I read that it just reassures me. — Rihanna

We all get one ride on this roller coaster of life. Let’s start thinking about how to make it the most exciting, exhilarating, and satisfying ride it can be. — Bill Perkins

Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end. — Sheila Jackson Lee

With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride that's both scary and exciting at the same time - the rise and fall of which defines our journey. — SebastiAn

I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster. — Amanda Peet

It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure. — Mariah Carey

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time. — Scotty McCreery

My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on "Boardwalk," because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time. — Jack Huston

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know. — Enzo Ferrari

The first roller coaster I ever went on in my life wasn’t until college. — Robert M. Sapolsky

Roller Coaster Rides Quotes

Everybody likes a roller coaster ride. — Pete Waterman

Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions. — Alexander Elder

We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle. — Robert M. Sapolsky

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round. — Mark Hart

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar. — Ace Frehley

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course. — Jackie Collins

Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills. — Roger Crawford

In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater. — Wallace Shawn

Life's a roller coaster. Best damn ride in the park. You don't close your eyes, hold on and wait for it to be over, babe. You keep your eyes open, lift your hands straight up in the air and enjoy the ride for as long as it lasts. — Kristen Ashley

The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise. — Vivek Wadhwa

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More Amusement Park Quotes

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. — Dolly Parton

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it. — John C. Reilly

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over. — Jon Stewart

A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves. — Gary Shapiro

Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun. — Walt Disney

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. — Edmund S. Muskie

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? — Bruce Sterling

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time. — Terry Crews

I've learned that the movies [Star Wars] will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I mean, it's going to be in 3D, then it's going to be smellivision, then it's going to be a ride in an amusement park, then they'll come to your house and perform it with puppets on your lawn ... it'll never end! I accepted that a long time ago. — Mark Hamill

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. — Edmund Muskie

I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats. — Emo Philips

If I were invisible I'd go to the amusement park~ — Yunho

Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business! — Paddy Chayefsky

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. — Jane Austen

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site. — Walt Disney

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters. — Carrie Underwood

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling. — Stanley Kubrick

Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park. — Jerry Doyle

Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years. — Jonathan Carroll

Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun. — Walt Disney

We live in God's amusement park. — Dean Koontz

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride. — Darren Aronofsky

What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp. — Ayn Rand

The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how powerful our minds are — Bill Hicks

I'm horrible at these things, 'cause I'm a horrible date.What's a good date? A nice dinner and a movie? I don't know. What are dates? An amusement park? What am I supposed to say? Hmm. I have no idea. — Drake Bell

I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood movies and Westworld, where the guy gets trapped in a western-themed amusement park. The western motif was fascinating to me. — Kimberly Elise

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. — Paddy Chayefsky

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir. — Stephanie Klein

That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer! — Roman Coppola

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface. — Dave Barry

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you. — Mohsin Hamid

I feel like they would just be the funnest people. I wish I could have been friends with Michael Jackson, just because he had the most badass house of all time and I could just go out and go on amusement park rides and then he could teach me how to moonwalk. — Thomston

It's always a thrilling experience to go into a place that offers you a lot of choice. You know it's like it reminds you of when you're a kid and you go to the amusement park and whether it be Disneyworld or Six Flags you know that thrilling moment when you first enter and you know you've got all these possibilities for the day and it's really a... it's a wonderful feeling. — Sheena Iyengar

Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine mist until it's just lonely particles floating in the air, waiting to be plastered in place. And what comes of it all, the design on the shirt at the end of the day, usually isn't much to see. I suspect that whoever he is, wakes up in the morning and wonders what he ever saw in it. — Ian Caldwell

The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he made for very relaxing company, quick to be amused at the world and his own peccadilloes. He enjoyed the seedy squalor of his rooms in a posh house in the most desirable part of Holland Park, and living up to his persona as an oddball bohemian. — Charles Saatchi

My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all the magic was gone from it. It just turned into a place I hated and I've never been there since. — Danny McBride

If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it. ... The connection is obvious. You get off, "Man, that was just like the movie! Only the movie had a storyline and characters, and that was a little more like a roller coaster." — Brian Regan

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach. — Jim C. Hines

I don't understand people who go to amusement parks. I spend most of my time trying NOT to be nauseous. 'Excuse me, could you strap me in upside down? I'd like to be as sick as humanly possible. I feel great today, I think I'll go down to Funland and snap my neck on the back of a ride. Honey, let's bring the kids, I want to give them a spinal cord injury for Christmas.' — Dom Irrera

If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person! — Tammin Sursok

Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared to an Asbury Park summer crowd, and the latter was vaguely amused. — Stephen Crane

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