Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

Gary Busey
Gary Busey

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

Gene Fowler
Gene Fowler

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Gladys Berejiklian
Gladys Berejiklian

I'm the daughter of proud immigrants myself, but it's clear that successive federal governments have allowed the rate of immigration to NSW to balloon out of control.

Haskell Wexler
Haskell Wexler

I don't believe in publicity before a film is completed. It costs you money and wastes your energy, and you're inflating your balloon before you have a balloon.

Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Hugh Douglas
Hugh Douglas

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.

Huston Smith
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.

Ian Lustick
Ian Lustick

Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.

Ira Glass
Ira Glass

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.