Balloonism Quotes

#1. How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.

Horace Walpole

#2. In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

Cleopatra Egypt

#3. I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics.

Tim Lincecum

#4. You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.

Elizabeth Aston

#5. Youth and beauty are not accomplishments.

Carrie Fisher

#6. Culture is "lived religion". It is the form that religion takes in the lives of men.

Henry R. Van Til

#7. Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

Quintilian

#8. If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane.

Byron Katie

#9. I will say that all it takes is one group of wrong-minded people with a bad idea that, in retrospect, sounded like a good one at the time.

Ernie Lindsey

#10. I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.

J. B. Smoove

#11. Part of loving kids is laying down fencelines. They need to know immediately when they've crossed a line; otherwise the lesson doesn't get learned.

Carew Papritz

#12. It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

Elizabeth Noble

#13. Think about a cloud. Just float around and be there.

Bob Ross

#14. The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

Bob Inglis

#15. There's something very magical about water and what happens to it when it freezes. I don't think there's anything else in the world, perhaps in our universe, that is quite like ice.

Ira Flatow