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Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results.
William Cranch Bond
Life is akin to a balloon; you must infuse it with something to reap the maximum benefits.
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We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds.
Rhys Bowen
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There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
Herman Melville
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An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.
Dianne Feinstein
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Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.
Mark Twain
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My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon.
Ian Kelsey
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I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly.
Joe Gold
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There's something in a flying horse,
There's something in a huge balloon.
William Wordsworth
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I absolutely get thrills from taking on these big guys and recognizing how, behind all their power, they are so empty. I just keep going at it. Each of these balloons does deflate. IÂ’ve seen a lot of balloons get deflated in my life.
Vandana Shiva
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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
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Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
Robyn Hitchcock
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I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.
Jim McDermott
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We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.
David Lereah
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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
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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Walter Lippmann
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
Al McGuire
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The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
Arthur Miller
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I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward
Jeanne Marie Laskas
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The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too.
Anthony Horowitz
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I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.
Katharine Hepburn
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She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind.
John Green
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple
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Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.
David Mitchell
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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
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Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
Elizabeth Wein
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I'm a former skydiver, I jumped out of all kinds of things including a hot air balloon. Ironically, once I started skydiving, I felt nervous not having my rig on in case the plane went down because I wasn't used to landing.
Carlos Alazraqui
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We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars.
Ray Davies
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So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
Scott Westerfeld
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Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.
H. L. Mencken
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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
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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
David McCullough
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I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.
Richard Branson