Balloon Quotes

128 quotes by 112 authors

Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the… — Steve Fossett
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… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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… — Alan Bradley
Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars. — Ray Davies
However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height… — Jules Verne
Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals. — Simon Hoggart
The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him. — Arthur Schopenhauer
An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured. — Dianne Feinstein
I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections. — Wayne LaPierre
Oh, it was a disaster, .. It went down like a lead balloon. I don't know why. I had thought the women in the audience… — Barbara Lee
I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it. — Jim McDermott
All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or… — John Muir
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. — Walter Lippmann
Another term for balloon is bad breath holder. — Demetri Martin
Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair? — Dennis Miller
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I… — David Mitchell
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon… — Jerry Saltz
A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet… — Margaret Atwood

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