Oh, it was a disaster, .. It went down like a lead balloon. I don't know why. I had thought the women… — Barbara Lee Copy Share Image
Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you say a wall, you mean a wall. You want to build a fence, you say fence. You don't use it… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon." "I'm so sorry," you said, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents had irrational fears of Mexico and assumed that once you crossed the border, drug runners made you swallow a heroin… — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, so do prime ministers. Tony… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains;… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again.… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Blackouts can be fun if approached with the right mindset. You just can't sweat the fact that you've lost a small portion… — Josh Kilmer-Purcell Copy Share Image
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Even though I didn't notice it while it was happening, I got reminded in ninth grade of a few things I guess… — Steve Kluger Copy Share Image
I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Most restaurants fail. The sad ones are stillborn. The mad ones flourish within the bustle and excitement of fame, notoriety, the thrill… — Sam Sifton Copy Share Image
What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? Then, while… — Colin Rowe Copy Share Image
President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
“Remember, these are special balloons. They work quite differently from the ones you are used to. No, these balloons do not take… — M.P. Kozlowsky Copy Share Image
As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I… — Deke Slayton Copy Share Image
She was not filled up with the sight of him, the way she had seen her sisters fill up, like silk balloons,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Those who flashin' don't blast, they still buffoons, Just blowin out hot air, they should fill balloons. I'm like them shorties that… — Elzhi Copy Share Image
Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“There were bright balloons flying on both sides of the porch announcing the specialness of this day. It was what balloons did… — Lisa Burstein Copy Share Image
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has new balloons this year including the Pillsbury Doughboy balloon and the first openly gay balloon. Also… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is his goofy laugh and silly grin that made people underestimate him; certainly his playfulness contributed to that perception. At… — Richard Brandt Copy Share Image
“When some name dropping and eye-rolling chin-strokers are trying to snow us under with an avalanche of swollen narratives, we must never… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time… — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
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… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and… — Breckin Meyer Copy Share Image
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… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year… — The Weeknd Copy Share Image