Air Balloon Quotes

#1. When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. Three deaths - by snakebite, by explosion, by razor. What next? Death by hot air balloon? Cannon? Trident?

Christopher Fowler

#3. I'll be out of my mind
and you'll be out of ideas pretty soon.
So let's spend the afternoon
in a cold hot air balloon.
Leave your jacket behind.
Lean out and touch the tree tops over town.
I can't wait to kiss the ground wherever we touch back down.

Owl City

#4. Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel standing on the third step of a stepladder trying to put millet in the bird feeder.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. There are things in life you hope to do some day - like ride in a hot air balloon or go to Paris- and there are things that you know you will never do because, in a nutshell, the desire isn't there.

Alice J. Wisler

#6. When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. 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

#8. J: You will not believe what Mom is doing.
M: Ballroom dancing lessons? Hot-air balloon classes?

Kelly Bingham

#9. 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

#10. I want to ride in a cold air balloon. "This isn't going anywhere!"

Mitch Hedberg

#11. The Hot Air Balloon Charm

Life Can Be Filled with Adventure If You Let Yourself Soar

Viola Shipman

#12. Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver, for he was the type who would never enjoy hot-air balloons, Van Morrison songs, or mess, whether from orgasm or otherwise. But who was she to be dreaming about mess today?

Andrea Kayne Kaufman

#13. I'm a former skydiver, I jumped out of all kinds of things including a hot air balloon. Ironically, once I started skydiving, I felt nervous not having my rig on in case the plane went down because I wasn't used to landing.

Carlos Alazraqui

#14. I was in a round the world hot-air balloon race. Before I left, I wrote a long letter to my children, in case I didn't return. I started the letter by saying, 'Dear Holly and

Richard Branson

#15. As everything becomes bad in you, all the good goes out of the world like air out of a big broken balloon.

David Foster Wallace

#16. His shoulders slumped as though he were a human-shaped balloon that had just lost half of its air.

Bentley Little

#17. Hopes were high. But just like a balloon pushed past its breaking point, hope is fragile. One lungful of air too many and the balloon bursts leaving ugly, shriveled fragments behind, impossible to piece back together.

Adriane Leigh

#18. Write - because you will explode if you don't, your brain will expand with words like a balloon filling with air ...

Sarah Colliver

#19. The challenge is, to live in a house from which meaning has departed, like air leaking from a balloon. A slow leak, yet lethal. And one day, the balloon is flat: it is not a balloon any longer. By

Joyce Carol Oates

#20. 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

#21. Five runs with two outs is tough to take. It sure took the air out of our balloon.

Mike Hargrove

#22. No air, no balloons!

Ljupka Cvetanova

#23. If you want to change something, change it. Don't just sit around sighing all day like a balloon losing air.

Anonymous

#24. Spending time and energy on pleasing others is like a hole in a balloon; soon all the air is gone and all that's left is a shell. HS/el

Evinda Lepins

#25. I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.

Susan Estrich

#26. Did I miss?" you asked.
"You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon."
"I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.

A.A. Milne

#27. Just as a balloon too full of air eventually bursts, a person too full of sadness eventually breaks. Fractures like a cracked bone. Shatters like glass. Snaps like a rubber band.

Anoosha Lalani

#28. Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if you watch what I do, that's almost never the case. I'm just trying to keep the balloon in the air. It rarely turns into anything combative.

Stephen Colbert

#29. You make my frown turn upside down and now my worries are gone.

Owl City

#30. I think my major challenge, very frankly, is to maintain the traction, ... I've seen many campaigns here in the state of New Hampshire look good for a while, and then the air comes out of the balloon.

John McCain

#31. To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.

Alberto Santos-Dumont

#32. I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.

Wayne LaPierre

#33. Hoping is such hard work. It tires you out and you never seem to get any kind of reward. Hoping feels like you're a balloon that has a pinhole that slowly leaks air.

Christopher Paul Curtis

#34. The ability to talk to other people seemed to be leaking out of me like air out of an old balloon.

Marian Keyes

#35. In the 1770s, when he was in Paris, Benjamin Franklin witnessed the flight of one of the first hot-air balloons. As the balloon soared into the air, someone asked Franklin: "What good is it?" Franklin responded: "What good is a new-born baby?

Benjamin Franklin

#36. The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.

Alberto Santos-Dumont

#37. The later-afternoon air of our exhalations hung in brief clouds before us. The thought balloon of my own breath said, "How have I found myself here?" It was not a theological question. It was one of transportation and neurology.

Lorrie Moore

#38. You can blow into a balloon and watch it inflate, and then release it and see it deflate. You can take that same balloon and blow into it again, and observe it inflating. That's what my heart is doing in this moment, inflating and holding the air.

Candace Robinson