Black Balloon Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The worse the reviews, the better for our demographic.

Johnny Knoxville

#3. There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick.

Gillian Flynn

#4. I have always thought that perhaps formal good manners may be a cushion against heartbreak.

John Steinbeck

#5. The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.

Francois Mitterrand

#6. Nowadays only cosmologists and particle physicists are allowed to invent new kinds of matter when they want to explain why their theories totally fail to match observed reality.

Terry Pratchett

#7. You never seem to hear about psychic occult attack in spiritual literature. This knowledge has been conveniently forgotten.

Frederick Lenz

#8. This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn't chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#9. Overhead, the glass envelope of the Insomnia Balloon is malfunctioning. It blinks on and off at arrhythmic intervals, making the world go gray:black, gray:black. In the distance, a knot of twisted trees flashes like cerebral circuitry.

Karen Russell