Famous Quotes & Sayings

David McCullough

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

Larry Evans

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.

Dianne Feinstein

An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

Bret Easton Ellis

We buy balloons, we let them go.

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

Shortly before the clock strikes 12, everyone is invited onto the rink. We hand out noisemakers and at midnight, everyone yells, makes a lot of noise and we drop balloons onto the crowd. It's a lot of fun for everyone.

We're an American Legion post, so we're emphasizing the red, white and blue. But we're also using lavender and silver balloons to acknowledge our connection with the community.

Jim Crace

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.

Harvey Pekar

I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were like virgin territory. There was so much to be done. It excited me. I couldn't draw very well. I could write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions.

We want to have a relaxed atmosphere, so we will have music, and will offer our customers snacks and drinks when they enter the store. Folks won't be able to miss our grand opening. We plan to hang banners, have balloons out front and have some live entertainment.

Leon Bridges

One time, when I was about eight, these guys started throwing water balloons at me. That really did ruin my summer.

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

Allan Gregg

If I was Harper right now, I'd go right into Quebec and hold big rallies. Big balloons and marching bands and just feel-good stuff.

Huston Smith

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.

Steve Fossett

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.

Steve Fossett

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.

Brian Giles

It balloons up a little bit, ... There's enough mobility to play. It'd be nice if you got to hit home runs and didn't run the bases.

Al Groh

He kind of looked like one of those balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade,

William Butler Yeats

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

Jennifer Freeman

I think the balloons should hang from the ceiling and drop down.

We can make balloon arrangements with dozens of balloons.

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.

For this one, the real critical test was making a string strong enough. We made a cable that was stationed by the balloons at a mile high for 6 hours?it was rock solid.

Steve Fossett

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,

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.

Steve Fossett

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.

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

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.

Eric Johnson

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.

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.

We each made two cards for him and let them go on balloons at his stone. He touched everyone's life who knew him.

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.