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Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with. -- Mark Twain
I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly. -- Joe Gold
If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination. -- Luke Ford
Another term for balloon is bad breath holder. -- Demetri Martin
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. -- Gene Fowler
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon. -- Robyn Hitchcock
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. -- Walter Lippmann
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
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 gas. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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 equipment. -- Steve Fossett
I should call people back more readily. I'm not the best friend sometimes in terms of that. I do follow that white balloon and get distracted a lot. -- Peter Dinklage
If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free. -- Jane Birkin
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire. -- Kim Basinger
My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and. -- Karen McDougal
We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player. -- Jack White
I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life. -- Diora Baird
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 got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went. -- Richard Branson
Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all. -- Huston Smith
I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it. -- Denis Leary
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 are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested. -- Richard Branson
I have my meals delivered... you know what I like? Chicken and rice... But the problem with being a defensive lineman is, if we get out of hand with our eating, we balloon up to, like, 300-some pounds. So I really got to watch what I eat. -- Hugh Douglas
In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon. -- John Tyler Bonner
I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal. -- Pete Docter
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 Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy. -- Jerry Saltz
When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative. -- Jim Crace
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 always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon. -- David Mitchell
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 in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England. -- Alan Bradley
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 work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. -- A. A. Milne
My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon. -- Ian Kelsey
There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon. -- William Wordsworth
I want to ride in a cold air balloon. "This isn't going anywhere!" -- Mitch Hedberg
My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off. -- Milton Jones
When I am holding a water balloon, so many things look so unnecessarily dry. -- Demetri Martin
We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars. -- Ray Davies
The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath. -- Alberto Santos-Dumont
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured. -- Dianne Feinstein
Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals. -- Simon Hoggart
I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it. -- Jim McDermott
Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results. -- William Cranch Bond
Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave. -- David McCullough
To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall. -- Alberto Santos-Dumont
Five runs with two outs is tough to take. It sure took the air out of our balloon. -- Mike Hargrove
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff. -- David Feherty
Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people? -- e. e. cummings
Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong. -- Seth Godin
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
I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. -- Haruki Murakami
Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free. -- Shannon Wiersbitzky
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
I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections. -- Wayne LaPierre
Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin. -- Daniel R. Scoggin
The problem with my balloon collection is that people always think there's a party. Settle down. It's not a party. It's just balloons. -- Demetri Martin
In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon... -- Margaret Wise Brown
The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. -- Jean-Pierre de Caussade
This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away. -- Pete Wentz
The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too. -- Anthony Horowitz
I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things. -- Joan Fontaine
When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works. -- Cassandra Clare
Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it. -- Solange nicole
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
Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. -- Alan Ball
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 perfect. -- Richard Branson
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 equipment." -- Steve Fossett
Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet. -- Michael Lewis
I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me. -- Chris Bauer
Satellite in my eyes Like a diamond in the sky How I wonder Satellite strung from the moon And the world your balloon Peeping Tom for the mother station -- Dave Matthews
I had a dream about you making balloon animals for kids. You were out of balloons and the kids were out of patience, so you inflated their imaginations instead. -- Ryan Lilly
She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind. -- John Green
I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star. -- Richard Branson
As a balloon expands, so too does my love for you with each passing day. To know how I truly feel about you, look no further than the balloon giraffe. -- Jarod Kintz
Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side. -- Bernie Siegel
Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up. -- Thandie Newton
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, the blue sky, the nude figure. -- Robert Grudin
The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities. -- Kate Millett
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire -- Kim Basinger
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 earth and trying to haul him down. -- Louisa May Alcott
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, the very fuel he wants for his balloon. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 your ear and give it to my wife. -- Colin Mochrie
Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring. -- Carl Sandburg
From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye's function being the function of a weapon. -- Paul Virilio
Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting. -- Charlie Munger
Agent Jones held Sinjinâ??s face in his hands. â??Iâ??m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.â? â??How right you are, strange delusional man,â? Sinjin said. -- Libba Bray
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has new balloons this year including the Pillsbury Doughboy balloon and the first openly gay balloon. Also the Thomas Tank Engine balloon, and they even have the Ebola nurse balloon. -- David Letterman

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