Balconies Quotes

• The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

  Howard Dean

  White, House, Effort

  "Democrats lambast Bush speech" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2004.

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• Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

  Ernie Pyle

  Dark, Night, Curves

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Want, Littles, Action

  "Dunst caught in 'Spider-Man' web". Interview with Paul Clinton, edition.cnn.com. May 1, 2002.

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• It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.

  Harry Nilsson

  Typical, Watches, Bunnies

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Football, Writing, Wine

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• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Trying, Vitamins, Boring

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• She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Reading, Together

  "A Girl I Knew". Short story by J. D. Salinger, 1948.

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• You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Dream, Kings, Simple

  Michael Eric Dyson (2009). “April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America”, p.3, Basic Books

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• I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.
  Death was like love, a romantic escape.
  I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony
  and know people would photograph me lying dead below

  Brigitte Bardot

  Death, Lying, Like Love

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• I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

  Joyce Brothers

  Mind, Moments, Building

  "Dr. Joyce Brothers: Coping with tragedy". Live chat, www.cnn.com. December 10, 2001.

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• I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dark, Winter, Loss

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “Winter garden”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Fall, Falling Apart, Neatness

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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• We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Summer, Eye

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• Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Morning, Moon

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.623, Macmillan

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• And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony.

  Eminem

  Funny, Looks

  Song: Not Afraid, Album: Recovery, 2010

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• Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.

  Bruno Schulz

  Summer, Wine, Squares

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• You couldn’t get rid of the past. You couldn’t ignore it, or bury it, or throw it over the balcony. You just had to learn to live beside it. It had to peacefully co exist with your present. If I could figure out how to do that, I could be okay.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Past, Figures, Okay

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• I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

  Anne Fortier

  Doors, Nine, Tomorrow

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.235, Ballantine Books

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• ...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of balconies a succession of libertines, sparkling glass in hand, toasted the bliss of past and future nights.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Night, Glasses

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.38, Hamilton Books

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• Maybe we were together in another life...in a parallel universe, maybe our paths are not supposed to cross twice, maybe your arms are not supposed to go around me. I hear about you now & then, I wonder where you are & how you feel. Sometimes I walk by & I look up to your balcony, just to make sure you were real-just to make sure that I can still feel you...it appears to me that Destiny Rules.

  Stevie Nicks

  Real, Destiny, Together

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• I didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Lying, People, Photograph

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• I urge you to be bold. Life isn't changed from the balcony. Get onto the floor and dance, dance, dance.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Changed, Urges

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• There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.

  Charles Bukowski

  Thinking, Light, Doors

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• …. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

  Albert Camus

  Sunday, Waiting Rooms, Office

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.26, Vintage

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• The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.

  David McCord

  Kings, Comfort, Sanctuary

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