So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your…

Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make…

— Scott Westerfeld

You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon…

— Julian Barnes

The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate…

— David Foster Wallace

Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the…

— Lyman Spitzer

“I remember watching those balloons as a little boy, each fall, wondering if someday I, too, would be nothing but a balloon in the…

— Kenny Porpora

I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work…

— James Van Allen

The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.

— Alberto Santos-Dumont

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Blackouts can be fun if approached with the right mindset. You just can't sweat the fact that you've lost a small portion of your…

— Josh Kilmer-Purcell

It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as…

— Ali Sina

“Faith, hope and love should be balloons lifting you up, not anchors weighing you down.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Five runs with two outs is tough to take. It sure took the air out of our balloon.

— Mike Hargrove

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People…

— Remy de Gourmont

But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality…

— Charles Baudelaire

I want to ride in a cold air balloon. "This isn't going anywhere!"

— Mitch Hedberg