Quotes About Balloon

#1. I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon. But what else do I believe in? Sometimes everything. Sometimes nothing. It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond.

Patti Smith

#2. 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

#3. A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#4. 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

#5. Because there will never be any boy's wrist to tie the balloon of your helium heart to (it has floated high far away from the heavy stone of that unnameable boy in chicago), you would never be with someone and then someone else, and you would definitely never be someone to someone else's else.

Terra Elan McVoy

#6. 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

#7. After hanging up the phone Aoyama sank back back on the sofa feeling like a balloon in a warm blue sky.

Ryu Murakami

#8. 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

#9. Pizza Hut isn't real pizza," I tell them. "The way that balloon of Big Bird they fly in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade isn't the real Big Bird.

Meg Cabot

#10. That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

David Levithan

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

Kelly Bingham

#12. 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

#13. Starting out in Kid's Cove, Mangle is mostly endoskeleton, as his suit is in pretty rough shape. He does have a pink bowtie. Mangle will lunge at you from the ceiling, so keep an eye out for him! Balloon

Hayley May

#14. Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

Robyn Hitchcock

#15. 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

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#17. In the middle of the night, when Laila woke up thirsty, she found their hands still clamped together, in the white-knuckle, anxious way of children clutching balloon strings.

Khaled Hosseini

#18. It feels like there is a giant man inside my head blowing up an enormous balloon. The balloon is made of spikes and the man is shouting very loudly.' Egg

Jamie Scallion

#19. The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There's no sense in trying.

Bob Dylan

#20. But pure, unadulterated feelings are dangerous in their own way. It is no easy feat for a flesh-and-blood human being to go on living with such feelings. That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth - firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon.

Haruki Murakami

#21. She lies there, deflating like a stuck balloon because she knew there would be pain and sometimes, as she's learning so quickly and much too early, we are alone with it. Despite Moms and Dads and all the others who might be hovering nearby, in the end we are alone with it.

P. Carey Reid

#22. Falling from great heights is dangerous.[citation needed] A balloon could

Randall Munroe

#23. There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to insist on meanings, and they are rarely even looked for now, except in cases involving the simplest, safest phenomena.

Donald Barthelme

#24. Sure. I would go. Balloon or bus or thumb out onthe highway

Nova Ren Suma

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Bentley Little

#28. 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

#29. She tries to not ask, to stop asking, but the effort is like trying to un-pop a balloon.

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

Austin O'Malley

#31. Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee,
Hope you get well soon.
Ho ho ho, hee hee hee,
Have a heart-shaped balloon.

Lemony Snicket

#32. The thought balloon of my own breath said, How have I found myself here?

Lorrie Moore

#33. 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

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

Sarah Colliver

#35. 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

#36. The secret to life is to be a balloon
And fly.
Fly very high
Out of the range of needles and pins
Out of the range of BB guns rifles
FLY
Fly very very high, my Friends
And never stop soaring

Jose N. Harris

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.

Jim McDermott

#40. Fear is an irrational emotion that floats from object to object like a helium balloon that you touch with your fingertips.

James Lee Burke

#41. If you wish to study a granfalloon, Just remove the skin of a toy balloon.

Kurt Vonnegut

#42. We just got word that Virgin Airlines (which Branson owns) was awarded a commercial route into Shanghai. So the balloon must be doing some good.

Mike Kendrick

#43. What is love? Imagine a helium balloon tied down and then you cut the ropes on a windy day. That is love.

Chloe Thurlow

#44. I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.

Breckin Meyer

#45. 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

#46. We do not become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon.

Yuval Noah Harari

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

Mike Hargrove

#48. Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#49. I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.

Laini Taylor

#50. 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

#51. I've just always wanted to see a balloon drift off into a cloudless sky.

M. Leighton

#52. Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.

David Feherty

#53. The incident made me lose the steam in myself but not to worry; this balloon can easily re-inflate itself..." ;)

Institutional Research

#54. 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

#55. There will be Casnoff butt kicked and all sorts of names taken. And hey, maybe I'll get some new scars."
Both of them hugged me tighter. "We love you, Soph," Mom said.
"Quite right," Dad added, and I laughed, even as my stomach twisted itself into a balloon animal.

Rachel Hawkins

#56. Maybe he wasn't the balloon who'd been cut loose, but the one who'd untied himself from the rail.

Joey W. Hill

#57. Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

David McCullough

#58. 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

#59. [H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]

Jonathan Franzen

#60. 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

#61. I wished I were somewhere with him, instead of there. I was feeling like some kind of strangely shaped balloon whose string he was holding, and if he let go, I'd float off into the ether.

Ava Dellaira

#62. We made it back to the airport without getting mugged, stoned, shot at, pounced on, bombed, shelled, garroted, gassed, pitched into, caught in a cross fire, sniped at, blockaded, napalmed, or trip-wired. No one even hit us with a water balloon.

Daniel Quinn

#63. Soon we are singing at the top of our lungs. A pop song that's as substantial as a balloon, but lifts us in the same way when we sing it.

David Levithan

#64. There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage rocket, or simply get in a balloon and keep going. But if it's sheer, unadulterated discomfort you're looking for, just stay on land.

Michael Palin

#65. A pop song that's as substantial as a balloon, but lifts us up the same way when we sing it.

David Levithan

#66. 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

#67. Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.

Louisa May Alcott

#68. You can't blow a balloon if there's a hole on it.Life is too,if you didn't have a faith on your struggles you can't over come from it.

Saravanan

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.

Anne Lamott

#72. 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

#73. The X had released its first wave of chemical optimism, I could feel it float up inside me like a big test balloon and splatter on the roof of my mouth, spraying good cheer. I could almost taste it, like a fizzy pink jelly.

Gillian Flynn

#74. Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

Mark Twain

#75. Because I am still learning to walk and talk, and it is a million times easier to be cynical and wield a sword, than it is to be open-hearted and stand there, holding a balloon and a birthday cake, with the infinite potential to look foolish.

Caitlin Moran

#76. Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the mind floats free, a frail balloon drifting into the sky as into infinity.

Joyce Carol Oates

#77. [He] made me feel ... large, maybe. In a way I hadn't before. But he didn't know that. For all he knew, I was always that large. It felt good. Fun. Unexpectedly large is sudden, magic levitation - you're high, an impervious Balloon of Joy.

Deb Caletti

#78. 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

#79. Virginity is like a balloon. One prick and it's all gone.

Aaron Asher

#80. We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars.

Ray Davies

#81. the fog was fog and yet was not fog. it was liquid and solid, then gas, then a roiling putrescence expanding like a balloon blown with filth.

Tim Curran

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. But even with centuries of experience, I doubted any of them had ever been hit with a water balloon. Or with a holy-water balloon, either.

Jim Butcher

#85. A lot of people up North, they think everybody from the South is married to their sister and has seen a UFO. I told them, 'I'm just dating my sister and couldn't swear that it wasn't a weather balloon.'

Jeff Foxworthy

#86. 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

#87. Oh, it was a disaster, .. It went down like a lead balloon. I don't know why. I had thought the women in the audience deserved a little bit of something else after watching all those beautiful women. But I think they were shocked. Although the guys did dance nicely.

Barbara Lee

#88. 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

#89. I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly.

Joe Gold

#90. Don't mess with my balloon.

E.L. James

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

Anonymous

#92. 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

#93. Then he snored and I jumped and I could hear the blood in my ears and my heart going really fast and a pain like someone had blown up a really big balloon inside my chest. I wondered if I was going to have a heart attack.

Mark Haddon

#94. 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

#95. Sometimes I feel like I could disappear and no one would miss me, like a sad, forlorn helium balloon floating away until it vanishes.

Zoe Dawson

#96. This balloon pit idea was fucking awesome.

Mike Shinoda

#97. 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

#98. Because getting a cheerful balloon helps people picture getting better, and if you picture something it makes it so.

Lemony Snicket

#99. Our "ego" or self-conception could be pictured as a leaking balloon, forever requiring the helium of external love to remain inflated, and ever vulnerable to the smallest pinpricks of neglect.

Alain De Botton

#100. From a certain angle, the spring seems so calm: warm, tender, each night redolent and composed. And yet everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking point.

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