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.
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.
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
I dreamed you a field of running horses, Selah. For you, Bianca, a balloon the size of the sky, my body a kite you can throw into the air. Pull me by string and horse. Tell me everything won't end in death. That everything doesn't end with February. Dead wildflowers wrapped around a crying baby's throat. I've slowed my heartbeat to three beats a minute. I've redrawn the clouds into birds, a fox chasing them into the mountains. I'm going to move my hand today. I vomit ice cubes. There's a ghost next to me. Get up, Dad. (Light Boxes)
Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.
Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results.
I want to ride in a cold air balloon. "This isn't going anywhere!"
My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon.
I gave my father a heart attack. It was a practical joke. Come on, you push a guy's face in a cake he's got to clean it off. You hit a guy with a water balloon, he's got to dry off. Guy's in the hospital, you get his testicles shaved, he scratches and bleeds for a week. . . it's funny. . . you're not supposed to have a heart attack, it kills the joke.
Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
Five runs with two outs is tough to take. It sure took the air out of our balloon.
The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.
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.
If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.
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
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.
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.
An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.
