quotes about Balloons
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
-- Al McGuire -
The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.
-- Alberto Santos-Dumont -
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
-- Arthur Miller -
I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
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I'm a former skydiver, I jumped out of all kinds of things including a hot air balloon. Ironically, once I started skydiving, I felt nervous not having my rig on in case the plane went down because I wasn't used to landing.
-- Carlos AlazraquiSource : Source: collider.com
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We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.
-- David Lereah -
Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
-- David McCullough -
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Another term for balloon is bad breath holder.
-- Demetri Martin -
An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.
-- Dianne Feinstein -
Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
-- Elizabeth Wein -
I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.
-- Haruki Murakami -
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I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.
-- Jim McDermott -
You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things,
-- Joan FontaineSource : "Joan Fontaine, Oscar-winning actor, dies at 96", www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2013.
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I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly.
-- Joe Gold -
I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.
-- Laini Taylor -
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Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet.
-- Michael Lewis -
We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars.
-- Ray Davies -
We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds.
-- Rhys BowenSource : Rhys Bowen (2009). “In a Gilded Cage”, p.11, Macmillan
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I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.
-- Richard Branson -
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Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
-- Robyn Hitchcock -
So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
-- Scott Westerfeld -
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
-- Walter Lippmann -
There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.
-- William Wordsworth -
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Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
-- Austin O'Malley -
My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon.
-- Ian Kelsey -
Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results.
-- William Cranch Bond -
If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.
-- Luke Ford -