Hot Air Quotes

• Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code

  Richard Branson

  Fighting, Space, People

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• Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

  Vanna Bonta

  Attitude, Air, Choices

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• Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Girl, Struggle, Air

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

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• When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Ignorance, Air, Hot

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.223, Faber & Faber

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• A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

  O. Henry

  Blow, Air, Political

  "A Ruler of Men". Book by O. Henry, 1913.

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• Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Air, Ideas

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• I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Thinking, Air, People

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• My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke great words of wisdom as he sat there on that chair: "To eat these things," said my uncle, "You must exercise great care. You may swallow down what's solid, but you must spit out the air!" And as you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.

  Dr. Seuss

  Uncles, Exercise, Air

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• Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

  Beatrice Wood

  Inspiration, Air, People

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• Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say.

  George W. Bush

  Artist, Air, People

  "The President's News Conference With Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 17, 2007.

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• And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying hot air balloons. People who can spread ideas, regardless of what those ideas are, win. But consumers, they got way more choices than they used to and way less time.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Coffee, Winning

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

  Myrtle Reed

  Love Is, Air, Orchids

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• Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

  Jackie Tabick

  Pride, Air, People

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• Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• [Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and the Sacrament [i.e., communion/Eucharist/Lord's supper], and incorporated it in the Word and preaching. To our eyes Baptism [capitalized in original] appears to be nothing more than ordinary water, and the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood simple bread and wine, like other bread and wine, and the sermon, hot air from a man's mouth. But we must not trust what our eyes see.

  Martin Luther

  Wine, Eye, Simple

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• A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.

  Steve Fossett

  Night, Air, One Day

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• I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Air, Order, Years

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• My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

  Alan Bradley

  Husband, Grandmother, Air

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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

  Air, Hot, Balloons

  Source: collider.com

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• What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the more it is absorbed by plants of every description - - and the faster and better they grow, even under adverse conditions like limited water, extremely hot air temperatures, or infestations of insects, weeds and other pests. As trees, grasses, algae and crops grow more rapidly and become healthier and more robust, animals and humans enjoy better nutrition on a planet that is greener and greener.

  Paul Driessen

  Weed, Animal, Air

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• Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways to say "no comment," and I've used 9,999 of them. The second rule is don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." You may look dumb, but if you don't know you can't give them hot air because it always shows on your face.

  Larry Speakes

  White, Air, Giving

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• Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi bu-cho, cho pi bu-fang. Basically that translates to: "Loud farts don’t stink, and the really smelly ones don’t make a sound." In other words: When you’re full of beans, you just blow a lot of hot air. If you want to have a real impact, be deadly but silent. Oh, also recognize the difference between a bad cliché and a good quotation. My mother’s saying is a good quotation. You should use it often.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Real, Blow

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• Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

  Roger Waters

  Running, Pain, War

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• The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly ended. The wedding-cake drawbridge lowered itself To the fragile forget-me-not flower. You climbed aboard. Burnt horizons suddenly paved with golden stones, Dreams I had, including suicide, Puff out the hot-air balloon now. It is bursting, it is about to burst

  John Ashbery

  Suicide, Dream, Flower

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• Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.

  Brent Weeks

  Believe, Moving, Air

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