Ferris Wheel Quotes

When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.

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

I remember my grandmother taking me and my sisters to the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. We would watch the diving bell and see the diving horse jump into the pool. We would take the bus there, and I just smile thinking about all of us running around the pier on those days.

I can remember the World's Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides. So, all this to say, I don't have a favorite ride. I don't go on rides. Well, that's not true. A few years ago I had a beautiful, romantic moment on the Ferris wheel at Coney Island, known as the Wonder Wheel, and so I guess that's my favorite ride, though even that, to be frank, terrified me.

'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

I love Disneyland because the teacups are so awesome. But California Adventure is the best.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

When I go to places, I love going to all those kind of amusement parks and kind of cheesy things to do.

I grew up in Jersey. I've been to the Jersey Shore countless times. I've lived it.

Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.

In the Fifties, Canvey was a top seaside place for a youngster - the famous Canvey Island Casino was full of slot machines and there were all the fairground rides, such as the dodgems, and a speedway track.

I used to work on Blackpool Pleasure Beach when I started wrestling.

Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.

The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.

I took my son to Coney island, I said "wanna go in the crazy house?", he said "save your money we'll be home soon"!

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.

I haven't been down to Navy Pier in such a long time. I know that's probably the touristy thing to do, but it just reminds me so much of 2000 when I was here shooting ["Hardball"].

I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs.

If there's one thing I could wish for right now, it would be to have one of those horses from the merry-go-round - they were the most exciting thing to go on as a kid.

I'm a girl that loves to go to amusement park.

The Goose Fair was the cornerstone of the city's year. The smell of fairs is amazing: deep-fried donuts, hot dogs, the frying of onions. You never wanted to eat all your baby pink candyfloss - it was so sickly sweet - but seeing it made with a stick around the barrel was like magic.