Balloonists Quotes

#1. Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.

John Le Carre

#2. Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.

H.L. Mencken

#3. The man is angry, the man
Is destructive, the man wants more.
The woman is more, the woman is all.

James Franco

#4. We are all gripped in madness. I have never seen the like nor heard of such a thing - gods, what we have become ...

Steven Erikson

#5. Bereft of vision to guide the city's citizens forward, he could only draw them inward and backward, to encourage them to fight over imagined foes and manufactured hurt.

I.M. Savage

#6. He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

Alice Walker

#7. A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.

Megan McKenna

#8. I know my face better than anyone else.

Dree Hemingway

#9. The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is the character who doesn't fit the mold.

Jane Heller

#10. We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around ... fighting wars and building napalm bombs ... so maybe there's something else going on

Michael Tsarion

#11. Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.

David Brin

#12. The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.

Pope Paul VI