Hot Air Balloons Quotes:

After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Men, Air, Years, Sixth Sense, Air Balloons

We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds.

- Rhys Bowen

source: Rhys Bowen (2009). “In a Gilded Cage”, p.11, Macmillan

topic: Air, Clouds, Balloons, Air Balloons, Hot Air

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

- Barbara Kingsolver

source: Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.223, Faber & Faber

topic: Ignorance, Air, Hot, Moral Superiority, Poke

The weird thing about serious acting is I've always done impressions of people, all my life, and I did the thing called a balloon debate. The idea is there's a hot air balloon traveling across the Atlantic and it's going down and you have to give a speech as to why you should stay in the balloon. Six people are going to be chucked out and you want to stay.

- Tom Hiddleston

topic: Air, Ideas, Giving, Air Balloons, Hot Air

My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

- Alan Bradley

topic: Husband, Grandmother, Air, Air Balloons, Victorian

And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying hot air balloons. People who can spread ideas, regardless of what those ideas are, win. But consumers, they got way more choices than they used to and way less time.

- Seth Godin

source: "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

topic: Running, Coffee, Winning, Coffee Shop, Air Balloons

When you say a wall, you mean a wall. You want to build a fence, you say fence. You don't use it as a euphemism for a virtual, say surveillance from hot air balloons that are floating over the border which some people have advocated.

- Steve King

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Wall, Mean, Air, Air Balloons, Hot Air

Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code

- Richard Branson

topic: Fighting, Space, People, Learning By Doing, Air Balloons

Hot air balloons are terrific to shoot from, although they have become very expensive, as has most lodging and food in the Napa Valley.

- Peter Menzel

topic: Air, Hot, Valleys, Air Balloons, Hot Air

The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly ended. The wedding-cake drawbridge lowered itself To the fragile forget-me-not flower. You climbed aboard. Burnt horizons suddenly paved with golden stones, Dreams I had, including suicide, Puff out the hot-air balloon now. It is bursting, it is about to burst

- John Ashbery

topic: Suicide, Dream, Flower, You Left Me, Wedding Cake

A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.

- Steve Fossett

topic: Night, Air, One Day, Ballast, Air Balloons

The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.

- Michael Hastings

topic: Military, War, Air, Air Balloons, Tracking

I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.

- Yann Arthus-Bertrand

topic: Air, Order, Years, Masai, Air Balloons

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 Alazraqui

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Air, Balloons, Hot, Air Balloons, Skydiving

It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so many ways, depending on who is doing the telling, and what needs to be heard at the time. It is a matter of history, however, that shortly thereafter, the Wizard absconded from the Palace. He left in the way he had first arrived-- a hot-air balloon-- just a few hours before seditious ministers were to lead a Palace revolt and to hold an execution without trial.

- Gregory Maguire

topic: Heart, Air, Glasses, Air Balloons, Hot Air