Balloon Quotations

Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.

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.

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.

Usually, we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind - blown here and there by external circumstances.

We want to see broad public participation, (which is) part of what's missing with the Balloon Track, anyway.

When you see a hot-air balloon going by, you immediately turn and look in awe. No matter what you're doing, you just want to look at them. Balloons have always been a great attraction.

We are going to look ... for the fastest, most direct route out of China, which is what the balloon wants to do anyway.

When they took that kick back for a touchdown, you could just sense a real momentum change on their sideline. And then we just answered it took the air out of their balloon a little bit.

So many things can hinder one. Think you are up in a hot air balloon with sandbags. As you get older, keep throwing those sandbags overboard. The more sandbags you throw, the higher you soar, the higher the balloon goes.

Obviously it has to do with the puncture in the balloon in the tech world.

I did get a few of his strays to come follow me. They were all out there in the rain waiting for him. I'm sure the air lifted out of that balloon quickly.

We can make balloon arrangements with dozens of balloons.

I would think in Kevin's case that he has to be very pleased. He's making one of the finest balloon flights ever, and he had not previously made a long balloon flight. It's outstanding so far.

I would think in Kevin's case that he has to be very pleased, ... He's making one of the finest balloon flights ever, and he had not previously made a long balloon flight. It's outstanding so far.

Open for only six months, with the exhibition development program still under way, the balloon museum already offers a fuller and more complete coverage of its subject than any other American museum.

Refinancing is necessary because the current financing is short term with a very large balloon payment that no community would be in a position to meet.

Some have a little balloon touch, but you can always see through. So without being naked, you can see the body. So the clothes float around the body in a way. Everything's very light, light, light. The main thing is weightless, weightless, weightless.

The 1980s turned them into an international family thanks to the arrival of Diana and this bull's generation of young Royals - Prince Andrew, The Duchess of York and so on. And what happened was that they were rather like a stock, rather like IBM. Their stock went up and up and up and when the balloon burst their stock went plummeting to the ground.

That was our balloon that jumped over to Highway 96.

We introduce a balloon of half a liter volume (about a pint) in the stomach and inflate it so it takes up space and helps slow down the eating. This causes a sense of fullness, and the patient is helped to lose weight.

With the temperatures you get around here (in autumn), the balloon works better than it does right now, ... The colder the day, the quicker (balloons) react.

Two words, sweetie: Balloon mortgage -- and the need to be loved.

When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.

Whereas my falling in the Coral Sea almost killed me -- because that was in a thunderstorm in a ruptured balloon -- the most dangerous thing in the world,

We do full face painting and balloon sculpturing. I think we're even going to start doing baby showers where the stork shows up with gifts.

You have to believe that you are going to succeed with this flight because a water landing would be very dangerous, ... I'm using the same capsule I've used for seven balloon flights, and it's seaworthy.

We attend these seminars to prepare ourselves and our crews for the upcoming balloon season, as well as being able to educate others on how to balloon safely.

But most people had to conclude, based on the fact that there were both satellite and balloon observations, that it really wasn't warming up.

We were dragged for at least a couple of miles and probably bounced 50 times before the balloon settled down enough so we could get outside the capsule and jump into the water,

To me, a jazz venue is what's playing there. I once saw something amazing at the Gilded Balloon during the Festival, which really stuck in my head. That's why I don't really see the Jam House as fitting in anywhere in particular in the Edinburgh jazz scene - the clubs all do different things.

We will be handing out party favors and there will be champagne stations around the casino. There will be a balloon drop in the Crown Room at midnight.

We got a green light last month when the Fed decided not to raise rates, then we got another green light when the bond market rallied last Friday, ... The balloon is still blowing up. I'm staying defensive. I still say the bubble is going to break. I just don't know when.

We sold the balloon painting. That was the most expensive item for us. The show quality was less than last year. It appeared that furniture was slow. We did sell, however, up to the closing moments of the show.

We just happened to be in Albuquerque at the time of the balloon festival. They send them off around 6 a.m., hundreds of them. It's thrilling to watch.

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.

Toward the end of February the weather is usually ideal. It's a beautiful time as far as the winds go. One of the things that the public really enjoys is that each night there will be a balloon glow You can see all of the balloons in the distance from the carnival and from the church.

We are going to have a party. Setting out back in April and trying to get the $27,000 to pay the balloon payment to save the building, I was really apprehensive about whether I was going to get that. I feel pretty good about the fire company, a lot better than I did earlier in 2005 when we stepped in there.

As it began to balloon before our eyes, and more and more and more and more people and money were involved, it was a bit overwhelming. But you just go forth with your passions and hope for the best.

a trial balloon floated by some people close to the President to test the waters and see if the public reaction would be adverse or not.

Safety is the key point whether it is at The Great Balloon Race (July 28-30), taking up passengers or just flying for fun.

Our signature event, ... is the balloon glow.

The White House hasn't floated its trial balloon yet.

You don't send a balloon up and then put a pin in it. He's gotten to the age where he should think about retiring.

This is the most extensive balloon study I've ever been involved with and that my firm has ever been involved with.

It was blown up like a balloon and twice the size,

It's to give people in different areas an opportunity to preview the races. Each year it will be held in a different area. Next year we'll take it to another area of Metro Louisville, possibly Southern Indiana. We just wanted to add events to the schedule and create our own little balloon festival.

It's like barrel racing, only you take two .45-caliber Colt revolvers, you shoot a course of fire with blank cartridges, which can break a balloon up to 15 feet.

It's like making figures out of balloons. You can fill a balloon with air and shape it to be a pretzel, a donut or a hot dog. Each will have a different moment of inertia and a different center of gravity. By changing the shape of the balloon, you change the physical properties of the balloon.

The balloon landed on soft sand...the landing was done very calmly, done by the books,

The balloon goes around in a circle. One revolution takes 10 to 15 days, and after that time you can choose if you want to take it back down yet. If it falls by accident nobody gets hurt because there's nothing there.

Not only will these tax cuts - mainly for the super wealthy and big corporations - wipe out the savings from the budget cuts, it will actually balloon our deficit even further.

The intention of the person or persons that threw the water balloon was probably a practical joke type thing but as you can tell it did cause some damage. . . . It's quite concerning to us that this type of activity resulted in people from Washington state not having a very good experience in our neck of the woods.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky - fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will

I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.

I had to find a new twist. I wanted a balloon 60 inches in diameter, which is my height, made of a translucent or transparent material.

I'm very supportive of any initiative to preserve land in the town of Bethel. This is a good trial balloon for future open space acquisition.

If the last balloon flight had gone smoothly, this would not have happened. We have delayed all approvals. Authorities now have to rethink the whole area.

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

The helium will contract... and that's when the balloon will descend. That's our hope.

All the Districts come down and host different activities. We (First District) set up a balloon dart board and the kids break the balloons and win prizes. We even add a little money to some of the balloons.

Hands, do what you're bid;Bring the balloon of the mindThat bellies and drags in the windInto its narrow shed.