Balloon Quotes
128 quotes by 115 authors
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Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.
— Margaret Atwood
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we…
— Richard Branson
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Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who…
— Richard Branson
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table,…
— Geraldine Brooks
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It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is…
— Richard Branson
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Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
— Gelett Burgess
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Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?
— E E Cummings
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The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of…
— John Timbs
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My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to…
— Louisa May Alcott
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As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the…
— Deke Slayton
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a…
— Lahiri Mahasaya
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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…
— Joan Fontaine
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You know, if I don't make it when I go out there in that weather balloon into that thunder storm. I want, you to take…
— Colin Mochrie
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If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we? I think it's possible for two people to change together,…
— Richard Bach
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At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon,…
— Robert Grudin
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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
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There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible balloon or flying…
— George W. Melville
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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
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We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the…
— Karl Hess
Who Wrote These Balloon Quotes
115 authors contributed a total of 128 Balloon Quotes, led by these top contributors: