Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.


Mae West

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It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.
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When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
NEIL DIAMOND
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
The changes at 7 start a merry go-round,
MIKE BELL
How do you do, Miss West? Mae West: How do you do what?
MAE WEST
A plumber's idea of Cleopatra [Mae West].
W. C. FIELDS
Round, round, while thus we go round, The best thing a man can do, Is to make it at least, a m...
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE
Oh, Miss West, I've heard so much about you. Mae West: Yeah, honey, but you can't prove a thing.
MAE WEST
We just had the inning where the wheels came off. The merry go-round started.
SCOTT VICKREY
Russia increasingly lived on short-term borrowing. Now, this was an extraordinary merry-go-round.
JEFFREY SACHS
An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away. ~Mae West
LAINA CHARLESTON
I've been doing a lot of thinking about you lately. Mae West, You must be awful tired.
MAE WEST
I'd give half my life for just one kiss. Mae West: Then kiss me twice.
MAE WEST
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave a...
WILLIAM D. TAMMEUS
There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high ho...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY
It's nasty. You can't keep your car clean. It's like a merry-go-round with all the bumps, and you sl...
MARY SIMPSON
It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON
Baseball's weird sometimes. You can't really explain things. Guess we need to throw another quarter ...
TRAVIS HAFNER
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
(During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage)Judge: 'Miss West, are you trying to ...
MAE WEST
My mind spun like the flywheel on an antique John Deere, merry-go-round during second-grade recess, ...
DENNIS VICKERS
If reshaping a life style boils down to pretending and dwindling into a world of make-believe, livin...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
I think I'm prepared for every worst-case scenario. If I go second round, I'm prepared to do that . ...
KYLE LOWRY
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ELLEN DEGENERES
Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
CANDACE BUSHNELL
If you have a max and go with it on the first round, you might blow the competition away, but you mi...
HUGO PAPSTEIN
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ASTRODOST
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!
Tom Bom...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
We get up, go to a meeting, get on a bus, come here, get dressed, get on a bus, go to practice, get ...
JAMAR NESBIT
All day long I've been telling myself it's only a merry-go-round. Some people fall off quicker than ...
DAN JENKINS
It's a round robin, and everybody will get four matches minimum. Some might get five. And the younge...
TONY WOODS
Lifes a bitch and then you die!
DON CARPENTER
Ring a ding dillo del! derry, del, my hearties! If you come soon you'll find breakfast on the table....
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
" Life can be like a roller coaster...And just when you think you've had enough,and your ready to ge...
STACEY CHARTER
If you leave your dreams on your pillow, you might as well just stay in bed. To make dreams come tru...
TONI SORENSON
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a go...
WARREN BUFFETT
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asi...
HERMANN HESSE
If every time two or three people disagreed we changed the secretary of defense of the United States...
DONALD RUMSFELD
Joe Louis was one of my closest friends.... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American...
MICKEY ROONEY
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough
MAE WEST
Mae: I've been asked to get married lots of times. Rae: Who asked you? Mae: Mom and Dad. Lots of...
UNKNOWN
Plano West is just an up-and-coming team. They've come a long way in less than a season.
LOUIS BENEVIDES
To know the hurt of what losing a loved one brings. Well put it this way time does not heal, you lea...
GARY F EVANS...
In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week...
TROMBONE SHORTY
Go up in a big airplane. Go high enough, and you will see the radiation rainbow interference ring ar...
STEVEN MAGEE
I’ve done the merry-go-round, I’ve been through the revolving doors, I feel like I’ve met some...
SEX AND THE CITY
We might beat West or West might beat us, but whoever wins still gets to play the second-seeded team...
ERROLE REMBERT
You can't choose up sides on a round world.
WAYNE DYER
You expect low scores out here, but don't usually expect a 60. That's a phenomenal round. You can't ...
CHAD CAMPBELL
It's obviously a dream come true. You always want to go up. Of course, you want to help them down th...
CARSEN GERMYN
In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry...
JACK HANDY
[It's not like the brass ring has been completely out of reach. Besides the buzz that surrounded] Ra...
TOM HANKS
You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.
JODI PICOULT
When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never s...
CHARLOTTE CHURCH
Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change
BENNY BELLAMACINA
My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.
MEL BROOKS
It was a little ring, something one might be able to afford on a student's salary.
FLORENCE DUNN
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ERIK PEVERNAGIE
And the seasons, they go round and round,/ And the painted ponies go up and down./ We're captive on ...
JONI MITCHELL
When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get...
JASON DAY
You're only going to come in for a short spurt, so we figure you might as well go nuts because you'r...
ADAM MORRISON
I'm not a real fan of commissions but I do think if you get the right people on it you might come up...
ORRIN HATCH
Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself, And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear That th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
And when we win, if Foxy says 'Come on,' I just might go to the Super Bowl, too.
KIM BRECHTEL
Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous!
FAKE CINNA
To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS...
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LOGAN ZANE HESSEFORT
An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means yo...
IAN MACKAYE
She mailed me a Merry Christmas-I'm-Breaking-Up-with-You card. I'll read it to you," he said. He cle...
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY
People should make reservations, because if they wait until they get to the mountain we might be ful...
DAVE TRAGETHON
Baseball fans west of New York City might hate the Yankees, but Yankee-hating is a good thing for th...
PAT SAJAK
The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are do...
LUKE EVANS
Maybe thats what hell is. You go mad, and all your demonds come and get you just as fast as you can ...
ANNE RICE
You got nothing to lose, so you might as well just go out there and just keep working hard, ... Hope...
MICHAEL AYERS
You get a few who might come in but they're not successful,
M. HARDMAN
As a movement (rather than a preference), the goal of antinatalism is that no humans should have chi...
QUENTIN S. CRISP
I told her, 'I'll be there -- if you wake me up! Just let the phone ring a lot.'
WYNTON MARSALIS
Beware of fishing for compliments - you might come up with a boot
CAROL WESTON
It was a great day for me. You just go out and hope you can have a good round and hopefully get into...
ALLEN DOYLE
Not in their wildest dreams would a U.S. carrier have come up with the rescue ring.
ANDREW COLE
I think we'll have four boxing for sure, maybe six. I'm just not real sure if they're ready yet. I l...
KIRBY SUNDHEIM
He said, 'You might as well get a cup and go sit on the sidewalk.' Instead, my name is on the sidewa...
CHRISTINE JOHNSON
Being from Colorado, a lot of my friends are up there. It's going to be nice to go up there again. T...
JASON BROWN
Golf is a really weird game. You can have your best round ever and your worst round ever on back-to-...
KATE GOLDEN
If he only knew how she refuse to let him go even when he was gone ~
TANYA GAMBHIR
I did a presentation in West Palm Beach back in 2001 and I just got glazed looks. Now we go and do t...
JOHN REES
At some point, I'll have to go get a real job.
SIMONE BILES
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER
We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows
ROBERT FROST
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
ROBERT FROST
Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the on...
RALPH ELLISON
I knew the seniors wanted another ring so I just had to step it up. We just had to get warmed up in ...
MYSTEE DALE
Until both trade superpowers get serious about their promises to make this a development round, dead...
LUIS MORAGO
Lifes a bitch and it doesn't even put out.
CHRIS PATTERSON
I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon.
JAMES ANDREWS
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find ...
JOAN DIDION
The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for most
of us, but it is for some of us, ...
JIM TREFETHEN
Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT
You want to win a ring? You want to win a national championship? Everybody sees this program going u...
BRANDON SILER

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Ohhhhh! I feel like a million but, I'll take'em one at a time!
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I believe in the single standard for men and women.
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I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.
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I always say, keep a diary, and some day it'll keep you.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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The curve is more powerful than the sword.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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I take it out in the open and laugh at it.
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