{"quotes":[{"text":"What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.","author":"Gene Fowler","tags":["children","balloon","toy "],"id":3177,"author_id":"Gene+Fowler"},{"text":"Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["achieve","agenda","anything","balloon","hot-air","inflated","meetings","philosophy"],"id":108305,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.].","author":"Jonathan Franzen","tags":["balloon","mind","simile"],"id":146294,"author_id":"Jonathan+Franzen"},{"text":"No air, no balloons!","author":"Ljupka Cvetanova","tags":["air","air-to-breathe","aphorism","aphorisms","balloon","breathe-in","quote"],"id":191085,"author_id":"Ljupka+Cvetanova"},{"text":"Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.","author":"Shannon Wiersbitzky","tags":["balloon","balloons","forgiveness","forgiving","set-free"],"id":198332,"author_id":"Shannon+Wiersbitzky"},{"text":"Who knows if the moon'sa balloon,coming out of a keen cityin the sky--filled with pretty people?( and if you and I shouldget into it,if theyshould take me and take you into their balloon,why thenwe'd go up higher with all the pretty peoplethan houses and steeples and clouds:go sailingaway and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,wherealways it's Spring)and everyone'sin love and flowers pick themselves.","author":"E.E. Cummings","tags":["astronomy","balloon","flowers","hot-air-balloon","luna","lunar","moonlight","spring"],"id":273914,"author_id":"E.E.+Cummings"},{"text":"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.","author":"Henry Ward Beecher","tags":["man","boat","balloon "],"id":274194,"author_id":"Henry+Ward+Beecher"},{"text":"Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night.","author":"Sharon Weil","tags":["balloon","be-the-change","change","changeability","have-hope","helium-balloon","hope","hope","hopeful","hopefulness","lantern","lantern-of-hope","night","night-sky","sharon-weil","sky"],"id":279886,"author_id":"Sharon+Weil"},{"text":"I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with.Tell me why you loved them,then tell me why they loved you. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirroron a day you’re feeling good.I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirroron a day you’re feeling bad.I wanna know the first person who taught you your beautycould ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.See, I wanna know more than what you do for a living.I wanna know how much of your life you spend just giving,and if you love yourself enough to also receive sometimes.I wanna know if you bleed sometimesfrom other people’s wounds,and if you dream sometimesthat this life is just a balloon —that if you wanted to, you could pop,but you never would‘cause you’d never want it to stop.If a tree fell in the forestand you were the only one there to hear —if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound,would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist,or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?","author":"Andrea Gibson","tags":["answers","balloon","love","mirror","nothingness","people","questions","reasons","wounds"],"id":361660,"author_id":"Andrea+Gibson"},{"text":"Up there in the sky.Don’t you see him?No, not the moon.The Man in the Moon.He wasn’t always a man.Nor was he always on the moon.He was once a child.Like you.Until a battle,a shooting star,and a lost balloonled him on a quest.Meet the very firstGuardian of Childhood.MiM, the Man in the Moon.","author":"William Joyce","tags":["balloon","childhood","moon","quest"],"id":373690,"author_id":"William+Joyce"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}