Balloon Quotes

128 quotes by 115 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people? — E E Cummings
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon. — Robyn Hitchcock
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

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