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  • Right. And our first job is to teach her to give a speech on the Grand Balcony in three days." "That does not sound too difficult. Has she done much public speaking?" Amilia forced a smile. "A week ago she said the word no. -- Michael J. Sullivan
  • I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here. -- Kirsten Dunst
  • I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all. -- Joyce Brothers
  • On weekends, I sit in a lounge chair on my balcony. I love to be outside when the weather's right. I can stay there pretty much all day. -- Sue Monk Kidd
  • I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring. -- Kate Beckinsale
  • The craziest thing I've probably done during a show is the balcony dive - it was pretty scary. I was like, 'This could result in an injury of mine,' but somehow I survived. -- Steve Aoki
  • In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places. -- Wayne Grady
  • Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out. -- Ada Yonath
  • The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon. -- Howard Dean
  • The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire. -- Charlie Pierce
  • The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows. -- Donald G. Mitchell
  • Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. -- Ernie Pyle
  • The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony. -- John Jakes
  • It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down. -- Harry Nilsson
  • We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. -- Kevin J. Anderson
  • Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony. -- Walter Dean Myers
  • I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.' -- Robert Fisk
  • I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin. -- Dennis Quaid
  • You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him. -- Michael Eric Dyson
  • Thinking about going to the balcony and jumping off. -- JJM
  • Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from. -- Simon R. Green
  • And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony. -- Eminem
  • In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak. -- Amy Hempel
  • I didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead. -- Brigitte Bardot
  • Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony. -- Gracie Allen
  • I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love. -- Pablo Neruda
  • I urge you to be bold. Life isn't changed from the balcony. Get onto the floor and dance, dance, dance. -- Jennifer Granholm
  • She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. -- J. D. Salinger
  • ...you must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for a ticket. -- Marcel Tabuteau
  • Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly, and all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony! -- Eminem
  • The girl Iâ??ve been looking for my entire life. Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly. -- L.A. Weatherly
  • We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air. -- Taylor Swift
  • The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm their people with speeches. -- Nizar Qabbani
  • I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window. -- Lemmy Kilmister
  • Snap. Lady with dog. Lady on sofa half-naked. Snap. Naked lady. Lady next to dresser. Lady at window. Snap. Lady on balcony sunlight. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq) -- Michael Ondaatje
  • I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song. -- Elliott Smith
  • I see God in the face of children. If there were no children on this Earth, if somebody announced that all kids are dead, I would jump off the balcony immediately. I'm done. -- Michael Jackson
  • Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day. -- George Carlin
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